So here I sit working on the magic box trying to put some plans together; have a few videos playing on one of my monitors for background - cat napping on the desk next to me ... when a Black Sabbath concert clip starts playing. The "Gathered In Their Masses" concert if I took my notes correctly. Playing their 40 yo cuts ... (pretty similar to the 1971 concert I went to).

Said cat gets up, sits on my keyboard, staring with rapt attention at Ozzy doing his thing on some of the bands earliest pieces - "Black Sabbath" off their first album in this case.

Hey! I'm trying to get work done here ...
Cat doesn't move.

OK - sit back and watch the clip with my cat.

The cut ended, the cat got up and resumed his nap on the desk next to me.

And now I'm distracted saving this incident for posterity making y'all read about it.

:)

Now back to it ...

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when I went through Manti, Utah.

The fog was beginning to lift as I passed by the temple

"On April 25, 1877, the pioneer colonizers of Manti - the fourth community established in Utah - began taking from the south side of this hill the oolite stone from which to build their temple"

Completed in 1888 by volunteer labor, it cost $1M to construct.

Manti is the county seat for Sanpete County. Founded in 1849, it straddles US89, north of Salina, east of I-15, with a population of about 3500. Manti was the first settlement in Utah outside the Wasatch region.

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth - of Rat Fink hot rod fame in the '60s died here in 2001 after converting to the Latter Day Saints in 1974. A Hot Rod Rat Fink reunion is held here every summer.

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