May 1, 2002
Wednesday

Louis let me make up my piano lesson from Monday tonight. The sad thing is, I haven't been practicing. I actually explained to him about my daily routine. That I have been feeling crushingly lonely, and getting out of the apartment after work in the hopes of meeting people. He's so great. We talked about scheduling "pockets" of practice -- each only 45 minutes. If I could do that before work in the morning, lunch and before heading out, I could have done enough practice. It's a good idea, instead of trying to do it all at once.

It's a shame he's married. I've said that before. We get along so well. The entire lesson we just talked. I mentioned a discovery channel special that I watched with Mom last night. It was another ancient mysteries show. And I maintain my incredulousness at what I'm hearing. Don't get me wrong. Crop circles? Complete farce. --> Duh! <-- Egypt? Fascinating.

The Sphinx endlessly watches the horizon and (I think) stares straight into the sun on the equinox. But the constellation they Sphinx sees in the sky isn't Leo. That makes sense. The sky today isn't the same as in 2500 BC. But it's not Leo then either. If you roll back the clock, we see Leo in the sky way back in 10,500 BC.

It turns out that the three great Pyramids line up exactly with the stars in Orion's belt if you overlay that constellation onto a map. And the size of the pyramids? In history class they told me the Egyptian empire was starting to slow down -- hence the smaller size after the great pyramid was built. But it turns out that the portional size of the pyramids match the portional size of these stars in Orion's belt.

And what about that fourth Pyramid way off to the north? Why was it built so far away? Well, it turns out that it lines up perfectly with Orion's shoulder. Coincidence? No way -- the shafts in the great pyramid point to... Orion. No biggie though. The Egyptians thought that Osiris lived there. They were trying to create heaven on Earth for their temples. Sounds like an awesome idea actually.

But the stars in Orion don't match up perfectly from the horizon today. The proportions are right, but Orion is in new place in the sky. Again, that makes sense. But guess when Orion does "match up?" Way back in 10,500 BC.

That's weird. The pyramids weren't built back then. They were built in the fourth dynasty. And something that also wasn't built back then was the Alcor (spelling?) temple in the jungles Cambodia. That is only a thousand years old. But guess what they found there? Lots of cool math, and… that it fits the constellation Draco exactly. But you can't see Draco from there today. And you couldn't see it from there when the temples were built because it was below the horizon. But you could see it, and it lines up exactly, in… 10,500 BC.

In fact, historians tell us nothing was built in 10,500BC. Though, there is this little ongoing debate about the age of the Sphinx. Geologist, many geologist, tell us that the weird erosion on the Sphinx is water erosion -- from rain. They don't know how, given that Egypt is a desert. But they do say it is a no brainer. "This is what we do for a living. It's called science. And that's water erosion."

There wasn't a whole lot of rain fall back in the fourth dynasty. And there aren't any records that describe the Sphinx being built then, ough we do have records for the other great constructions -- such as the pyramids. Guess when there was rain though? Back around 10,500 BC.

I've been bubbling with this mystery. I was telling Amy, Steph and Austin at the coffee shop. Austin, piped up, wasn't there an ice age around that time? "Hmm, I'm not sure. But! …I have an encyclopedia right here on the laptop!"

Andd guess when our last ice age ended? Right around 8,000 BC.

Now, I'm not saying this means anything or is any more real than the "safety inspections" cops were doing in predominately black communities in Florida during our last election. Oh wait; those were real, so never mind that. But what I am saying is…

HOLY FRICK'N POOP!