On the road again...My Traveling Inquisition is on the road again...
With the move and the new house and all, I've curtailed my work travel considerably, in favor of bring my victims here to D.C. for interviewing. Unfortunately, those cases where I have to go to the affected District and interview several (or in one upcoming case, about 25) people have sort of stacked up, so spousal objections aside, I have to get out and get some Inquistorial persecuting done.
The Gestapo's work is Never Done.
June is looking ugly. Sunday, I'm off for Jacksonville, FL. until the following Saturday. Two days later, I'm off for four days to Corpus Christi TX. The week after that, I'm in Peoria IL. The week after that, I'm in Atlanta GA.
Notice that none of the places listed made anyone's list of Sought-After Tourist Destinations?
We went to church Sunday, which was keen. The church we've started going to has been there since the (I think) late 1600's, and the current building has been in use since the 1730's. It's a big brick thing shaped like a Greek cross, with one arm containing the altar, pulpits and other bits of the clerical stage, and there are doors at each of the other arms. The interior doesn't have pews in rows-- there are these box-thingies, like cattle-pens, and the congregation sits in these. During the Civil War, the unoccupied church was requisitioned for use as a stable by Union cavalry, who kept horses in the boxes. Being sloppy bitches, the unit let their horses crib (gnaw at the wood of the "stalls"), so most of the boxes have walls that are about waist-high, rather than chest-high.
Those must've been some cribbing mo-fo horses, if you ask me.
There is some discussion as to whether the church should restore the boxes to their original pre Civil War (or "the Late Unpleasantness") appearance or not. The problem is that the cavalry-cribbing story is tres' cool and tres' historic in its own right, which is being balanced against the stark fact that the shorter walls are effin' uncomfortable to lean back on, what with the moldings at the tops of the box walls and all.