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It's happened, again. A guy had travertine installed in his house. He noticed this fossil and was asking for an ID/confirmation. Several dentists and forensic anthropologists showed to let him know it is a human mandible. Turn out the travertine is from Turkey, and it's an important fossil... early human. Researchers have reached out to him.

So...Indian Burial Ground; Variations on a Theme?

It'd be just my luck that my home improvement project would turn into a dig.  Sorry sir, but you can't use your kitchen...FOR SCIENCE!

The museum is currently closed for remodeling. Sign said it opens later this month. I think I saw that the crowd was about 50k. Leaving was simple with no wait... even driving out of the parking lot(we were in Main Gate lot) was no wait.

Oh...well that's 20%...no wonder it was easy.  I know 50k is a lot of people, but spread leaving to all surrounding neighborhoods and it's a breeze.

Yeah, it was a great time. Met some cool people, too. I was expecting a nightmare, leaving, but it was a breeze... even leaving the track was easy. I guess they have perfected traffic control since they have so much practice every May. Made it home in four hours. The last time it took 12 or 13.

 

edit to add: We set-up on the lawn behind the in-field museum. Most of the activities happened down on the start/finish line, but those down there had sit on the tarmac(or in the grandstand), and the crowd was pretty large. On the lawn there was maybe a thousand people, no one was packed in, plenty of room to move about, and the bathrooms were close(and porta-potties even closer). The little gift shop/store, surprisingly, had drinks and snacks at normal price, whereas the vendors down front were charging about 250% above($2.00/bottle water vs $5.00/bottle). I brought a small scope, three pair of binocs, and filters for all of it, plus various other optical accessories and mounts- no mounts in the grandstands, so that made the lawn choice easy, and of course, chairs.

 

Hopefully, I can make it another 21 years for the one 2045. I kind of doubt it, and even if I do, it will be in August in the South. I'll be a very old man, then... maybe by then someone will invent personal air conditioners.

Glad you had a good time.  Having been to the race several times, they have NOT mastered traffic control.  It's my single biggest disincentive against going yearly.  Otherwise, the track is cool, so is the museum if you had a chance to go in.

Cousin It, hope you had a good trip to Indy.  Weather was very good, and we had a great seat in the backyard.

Edited to add, the Rapture has once again passed me by. 

Ouch...sorry It's Cousin.

We had tickets to go tonight...bought 'em months ago just because I've always wanted to go to the tourney and it's usually in town.  Then Purdue was a number 1 seed playing in Indy, so should be fun. 

Of course, my son has been sick all week and barfed this morn, so plans are off.  I was able to immediately resell them through TicketTyrant at a bit of a markup (I didn't even set the price...they had "waiting offers"), but then they want your SSN for tax reporting.  Figures.  Guess I'll go to the sweet 16 next year at considerably greater cost!