*Thud*

In the past two days, I've racked up close to five hours of overtime, didn't have a lunch break either day, and put close to 500 miles on the truck. Last night, I got maybe an hour of sleep.

So, yeah. No work for me today.

The irony here is that these long days aren't being caused by a massive overload of work, we're just not getting out of the warehouse! I start at 0530. Yesterday, it was about 0730 before I finally knew what I was carrying and where it was going. Of course, some of the material was at 7th St., so add the time to shoot down there and load more stuff. End result? I made my first delivery of the day to a site about 2 miles from the warehouse at 0900 - 3.5 hours after I came in. Then I had to drive this route.

The late start meant that I had to race to make all my deliveries before people left for the day. So, no lunch, no breaks, and utter exhaustion. which probably explains why I couldn't sleep last night. When I'm this wiped out, sleep is difficult.

Wear sunscreen.

HEAVEN IS HOTTER THAN HELL

The temperature of heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our authority is the Bible, Isaiah 30:26 reads, "Moreover, the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light of seven days." Thus, heaven receives from the moon as much radiation as the earth does from the sun, and in addition seven times seven (forty nine) times as much as the earth does from the sun, or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the moon is one ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of heaven: The radiation falling on heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation. In other words, heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann fourth power law for radiation:

(H/E)4 = 50 where E is the absolute temperature of the earth, 300°K (273+27).

This gives H the absolute temperature of heaven, as 798° K (525°C, 979°F).

The exact temperature of hell cannot be computed but it must be less than 444.6°C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulfur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelation 21:8: "But the fearful and unbelieving... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone [sulfur] means that
its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, which is 444.6°C. (Above that point, it would be a vapor, not a lake.)

We have then, the temperature of heaven, 525°C (979°F). The temperature of hell, between 115.2 and 445°C (239.4 to 832.3°F). Therefore heaven is hotter than hell.

Applied Optics (1972, 11 A14)

Urg. Staying home was the right thing to do.

( A bit more about my digestive system than most of you want to hear. (Not overly graphic) )

OK, not exactly like that, but trust me, this was more fun to read (and write!) than the more realistic story.

Meanwhile back in the control room...

Ensign Wheatbiscuit is explaining things to the Captain.

"Sir, I was merely telling a tale to the lads when I hit this lever here like this.." clang!

Klaxons, flashing lights, mass panic.

"Mr. Wheatbiscuit," rumbled the Captain, "you are an imbecile."