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cornerofmadnessDidn't leave the basement today. Spent it washing clothes and working on my lectures. Every time people laugh about my "15 hour work week" I want to show them just home many hours it takes to do a single lecture. But after a while it IS boring.
I did get another chapter of Blood Red done last night and might finish another today. I really DO need to find better ways of managing my writing time because I'm never going to get anywhere turning out one thing a year.
I got to see the Six Million Dollar Man the other day for the first time in decades. I was very young when it was on. I remembered liking it. Seeing it now, Steven Austin was a perv. In the early episodes at least it was very obvious they were going for a James Bond love 'em and leave 'em style when it came to women. Every episode I saw had at least one scene with a woman on a bed and one with Steve shirtless...
Today let's have the Mission San Jose today.
The mission was not just a church in the 1700s. It was a walled fortress against various Native tribes and other enemies. these walls doubled as apartment.
Inside the apartment
the remnants of the stone walls would have been the slaughter house
The church and nunnery where the monks (yes monks, not nuns in this case) lived
The nunnery
The back door into San Jose
The back door from the inside, rich with symbolism
The original baptismal font
An original doorway, no longer used, and the Virgin of Gudalupa
This is not the original altar. This dates to the mid 1800s so about 100 years into San Jose's life. Yes that IS gold leaf.
Close up of the altar, top left St Michael, Top Right St Francis, Bottom Left Mary and child, Bottom right Jesus.
The top of the front door
The bottom of the front door
These were shot up by the Texans and since been repaired. I didn't share the other shots of where the people carved their names all over it (unless someone wants it)
The Rose window, the one legend has it was done for a man's lost true love but more likely was done for a saint.
I did get another chapter of Blood Red done last night and might finish another today. I really DO need to find better ways of managing my writing time because I'm never going to get anywhere turning out one thing a year.
I got to see the Six Million Dollar Man the other day for the first time in decades. I was very young when it was on. I remembered liking it. Seeing it now, Steven Austin was a perv. In the early episodes at least it was very obvious they were going for a James Bond love 'em and leave 'em style when it came to women. Every episode I saw had at least one scene with a woman on a bed and one with Steve shirtless...
Today let's have the Mission San Jose today.
The mission was not just a church in the 1700s. It was a walled fortress against various Native tribes and other enemies. these walls doubled as apartment.
Inside the apartment
the remnants of the stone walls would have been the slaughter house
The church and nunnery where the monks (yes monks, not nuns in this case) lived
The nunnery
The back door into San Jose
The back door from the inside, rich with symbolism
The original baptismal font
An original doorway, no longer used, and the Virgin of Gudalupa
This is not the original altar. This dates to the mid 1800s so about 100 years into San Jose's life. Yes that IS gold leaf.
Close up of the altar, top left St Michael, Top Right St Francis, Bottom Left Mary and child, Bottom right Jesus.
The top of the front door
The bottom of the front door
These were shot up by the Texans and since been repaired. I didn't share the other shots of where the people carved their names all over it (unless someone wants it)
The Rose window, the one legend has it was done for a man's lost true love but more likely was done for a saint.
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