_____Walking into work last Tuesday, I was almost immediately called over to the Ed's desk and reassigned to chase Ardie Olson down the Coosa River. The Alabama Scenic River Trail opened up last month (someone should fact check that because I can't rightly remember at the moment), and Ardie is trying to run it in two weeks. That's 631 miles of river, by the way, in a 20 foot kayak. He's actually from Cumming, GA, and does stuff like participate in the world's longest mountain bike race. Kudos and whatnot. Nice guy.
He works as an office manager for his wife, who is a lawyer. Apparently, he gets quite a bit of time off. The geeky coolness factor of his trip was that anyone who wanted to could track his progress via something called "Spot" online. His life jacket was equipped with a GPS tracking unit that sent out updates every ten minutes or so. Pretty nifty. Pretty soon, parents will be able to subdermally implant these on their kids while they sleep. And we all thought we had it bad.
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And erotic still life. Okay, it's not really erotic, it's actually medical. Back in the day, and by "day" I mean the Ming Dynasty, Chinese physicians weren't allowed to touch or even see upper class female patients, so these dolls were made to help the doc make a prognosis. He would take the doll, pass it through to the woman, she'd mark the place of pain/injury, and pass it back. Based on this, the pulse he was allowed to take from an outstretched wrist, and, I'm guessing, pure dumb luck, he was supposed to make his diagnosis.
You know, I was all set up to have someone pose for me in the same, ahem, attire, but this is still as close as I've gotten. Ah, well, sigh ...Ciao.
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