irrigation
Oct. 6th, 2004 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingWas mildly sick yesterday, and went to bed very early. Am feeling mostly better now, though still a bit sniffly.
Made hard-boiled eggs. Which is not particularly difficult, really, but I've never done it before so I was a little nervous.
Filled out and mailed my absentee ballot. I have done my duty as a concerned citizen, and if the wrong people win, I've earned my right to bitch about it for another four years. (I figure that if you don't bother to vote, you have no right to complain about the government, because you didn't even try to change things.)
Also wrote more Ekanu stuff. It still isn't finished, but it's inching along. And there is much digression by way of music and cultural stuff and irrigation and waterwheels and pumps. There are definitely times I think I have read too much history, anthropology, sociology, and particularly history of science and technology. Then I remember that I like this world at the beginning of a lazy and piecemeal industrial revolution, and I'm grateful I have all this random knowledge.
It's funny. I learned about Hawaiian irrigation techniques from a book on the comparative history of chiefdoms and the creation of political power -- which isn't something I'd expect to talk about agricultural engineering, but the farmlands and water controls proved very relevant to the political and ideological structure of native Hawaiian society.
It's good to read nonfiction. It's much more useful -- in terms of my own writing, that is -- than fiction.
Made hard-boiled eggs. Which is not particularly difficult, really, but I've never done it before so I was a little nervous.
Filled out and mailed my absentee ballot. I have done my duty as a concerned citizen, and if the wrong people win, I've earned my right to bitch about it for another four years. (I figure that if you don't bother to vote, you have no right to complain about the government, because you didn't even try to change things.)
Also wrote more Ekanu stuff. It still isn't finished, but it's inching along. And there is much digression by way of music and cultural stuff and irrigation and waterwheels and pumps. There are definitely times I think I have read too much history, anthropology, sociology, and particularly history of science and technology. Then I remember that I like this world at the beginning of a lazy and piecemeal industrial revolution, and I'm grateful I have all this random knowledge.
It's funny. I learned about Hawaiian irrigation techniques from a book on the comparative history of chiefdoms and the creation of political power -- which isn't something I'd expect to talk about agricultural engineering, but the farmlands and water controls proved very relevant to the political and ideological structure of native Hawaiian society.
It's good to read nonfiction. It's much more useful -- in terms of my own writing, that is -- than fiction.
