Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s going to be another autumnal weekend through Sunday when temperatures in the 70s (!!!) are going to make it hard to avoid working outdoors for a bit. Apparently the temperatures will remain in the 70s for early next week!

It’s a good weekend for sports even if the US dropped their first match of their T20 series against Nepal and OSU has a bye. The Texas-Georgia game Saturday night has the potential to be a barn-burner. I’ll be switching between that and the Tim Tszyu title fight. I’ll keep an eye on my Mighty Spiders who play my home state of Delaware this weekend for a fairly high stakes game. I’ll also make plans around the US Grand Prix festivities.

This week had a NEW BOOK DAY!

It’s near the end of the beet campaign:

And it’s time for some quick hits and varia:

• Real Archaeology is coming soon!We even have a video preview!

• Tom Isern’s Plains Folk at 1000 (and a preview).

• Lots of Petra in the news lately, but this is my preferred Petra: Pearce Paul Creasman, Noreen Doyle, and China Shelton eds., Petra’s Temple of the Winged Lions Volume 1: The Site, Project History, and Architecture. 

• From the Blogs:

Blogging about writing about blogging.

The Sound of Silence.

• Winners of the 2024 State Literary Awards on Cyprus.

• Tim Berne.

• RIP Ka.

• What I’m reading: John Schofield, Wicked Problems for Archaeologists: Heritage as Transformative Practice. 2024.

• What I’m listening to: Roy Hargrove, Earfood. 2008.