It’s been almost too hot to breathe for the last few days. I’ve been very grateful that I purchased an air-conditioning unit for home a year or two back — last night it didn’t get below 27C upstairs until after 11pm!
So not much is happening. At work we sit at our desks in heat-exhaustion; in the evenings we lie around and hope for a cooling breeze.
When the air-con is working at work, I’ve been working some more on QuickGreek. This has been going very well. I hope to add in all the proper names from the Septuagint sometime, when I can think straight.
The library tell me that Vermaseren’s publication of the excavations at the Mithraeum under Santa Prisca in Rome in the 60’s has arrived. I was rather doubtful that anyone would do an interlibrary loan for such an item, but apparently they have. I shall take a look at it this weekend, and see if it makes more sense at home.
Correspondence is slacking off too, as everyone goes off for summer. But I have had an email from someone looking at Eusebius of Caesarea on the Psalms. A couple of people have bought copies of QuickLatin, bless them.
I’ve done no more on the Eusebius Gospel Problems project – just too hot. I need to get back to this and get it finished. People are still writing to me showing interest in it, and no blame to them.
My current freelance contract comes to an end in a couple of days. I hope to take a few weeks off, but then job-hunting will be the order of the day. Finding work in a recession is always challenging, and it will be interesting to see how I get on. I won’t commission anything very expensive while I’m between contracts, of course.