Moving to some Beat — drawing on the napkin of life

This is more of a interesting story perhaps because today I caught myself back in archeology for some period of time; telling stories of what it was like to wander the deserts, forests, and American Southwest. We all went to a Macaroni Grill for lunch and you can draw on the tables there. So I drew things like little hearths and people around them and we talked about what its like to do archeology. Simply put and as a friend once said, “its the most fun you can have with your pants on”. But the real definition has to be,

The systematic study of past human life and culture by the recovery and examination of remaining material evidence, such as graves, buildings, tools, and pottery.

and that is the truth But there is also beer involved. You do all the neat stuff but you consume quantities of beer doing it.

Anyways, it reminded me for some reason of this other story of some years ago. My wife and I were at a meeting called the Society for California Archeologists’ Annual Meetings. I think they were in Salinas that way back year. We were there with my buddy and mentor RWR from AV College. We were eating Mexican Food that day and RWR showed us how evolution happened by drawing on tortilla chips. Failed species were summarily ingested. Others found themselves crawling out of a sea of salsa. Successful tortilla chips suddenly had more tortilla chips around them…

A defining moment and a reason to go on and do archeology? Perhaps. But better, it was a defining moment in a friendship because we both have treasured and remembered that day for some years.

Thanks DaveR for letting me remember those days.