This week's activities: Rosicrucian Museum

Wednesday we went to a local museum I've always loved. Gramma often took me to it after church when I was small. This week I really wanted to go to see the special exhibit about the child mummy I'd wondered about since I was her size. Silicon Graphics had partnered with Stanford Hospital and the museum to do detailed CAT scans of the little mummy and to create detailed graphics of what was within the wrappings without destroying anything. They always thought it was a little girl, but they weren't sure. Now they know. They've nicknamed her "Sherit" which means little one. Somebody loved that little girl very much. Like so many children of her time, she didn't survive transition from breast milk to regular food. They say on the display that she was 4 1/2 years old. A forensics reconstructionist created her face from a reproduction of her skull. Wow! Now we know what she looked like. Her hair is still on her head and was detected by the scans, so they were even able to tell what her hair looked like. I took a bunch of photos, but they're nothing like what is provided in this sgi.com video.

( Child mummy pictures )

Moffett Field Museum

Friday we went to the Moffett Field museum. I loved the diorama showing the different things that were housed in Hangar 1.

Hangar 1 diorama The smallest blimp on the right is the size of today's Goodyear Blimp. Moffett Field History Museum Moffett Field, CA

And after that we drove 1/2 mile to the Computer History Museum. This was a museum only a geek could love. It started with the very first computers (variations of the abacus) and progressed up through fairly modern PC's. I found myself explaining how 1's and 0's combine to represent letters and numbers to one of the out of state visitors, lol. On the tour, I recognized the culprit that got me hooked on computers at age 5: IBM's 1401 printer. It was dated 1959. That is the one printer that would make different pitches depending upon which letter was being printed. My dad had it hum songs on my first visit to his workplace at the county data processing center and that was it for me. Also on the tour I saw the progression of IBM computers I recognized from my dad's proud tours of the "new" computer systems as they came out. There were other brands there, too. They had two Cray computers. Sadly, most of the computers are not in working order. They're currently restoring a 1401 printer and the computer that drove it to working order. The tour guide said he didn't think they'd have the printer hum tunes. It was rather stressful on the print belt. What I didn't know about the 1401 printer was it was the first one to print perfectly flat lines of print. The others tried to "print on the fly" which resulted in crooked printing. We bought t-shirts there. :)
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Emotions overrun me

This mail-order pharmacy may save money but I'm sick and tired of the way they sit on prescription orders for a week to 11 days so I end up without meds I NEED.

Apparently this is only for starting up a med. We'll see. I should have begun my three weeks of hormones a week ago but they didn't send it for 11 days after they received it. I ordered it on August 19th. They mailed it on the 30th. It's still not here. In the meantime, my vacation week has been full of muscle pain and cramping, depression, crankiness, female difficulties that had been under control and a brain so foggy I have trouble verbalizing my thoughts. Writing is easier. I can take my time to find the words. I can adjust the order so they're coherent. My shrink appointment on Thursday was um.. interesting. I had trouble making sense.

I was too tired and sore to go to Bonfante Gardens today as we'd planned. We're going to try to go tomorrow even though the mailman still didn't bring my meds.

Of course, I rant about this and then I think about all those people who don't have insulin and other crucial meds and then I feel guilty.