afufle | Old Year Passing

I am at Patty's housesitting & dogwatching. We did errands before noon. She's a manager at GoodWill, & we went to the location of it across the river, where she used to manage. I got a really nice denim bag, ostensibly for books, but I think it would be good for just being a handbag really. She thinks it would be a good summer bag, but for me, it's dark, it's winter.

I like bags.

Got a black chenille scarf, too, and a copy of the really old seventies Ralph Bakshi cartoon movie of The Hobbit. Silly, but it might be fun.

I renewed my 4 DVDs, got some interesting ones. LotR Return of the King, Hidalgo and a Nova episode about the history of the Hebrew Bible, and another PBS special about the first English versions of the Old & New Testaments. Apologies to anyone who regards the OT as the Only Testament.

The one about the Hebrew Bible talks about how the archaeological community is finding evidence outside the Bible of the existence of King David and Solomon, and the Jews in ancient times in general. There was a victory monument found in Thebes, an ancient Egyptian record of various lands conquered by [Mernotep? can't remember the name of the Pharoah]. Included is Israel, and the pharoah brags he has "shorn Israel, and it's seed is no more".

A bit mistaken as the narrator pointed out, about having wiped out the Jewish population.

There was a clay tablet found that also bragged the writer had conquered the King of the House of David. Meaning possibly David's grandson, Rehoboam. Shoot me for not remembering better. I guess I need to watch it again.

Happy New Year to everyone out there, if anyone's reading this anymore. I just have about slid off the face of the earth.