Mouse or Lion?

Medieval Mickey Mouse; amazing what you'll find while looking through archaeology sites for entirely different things. http://www.thelocal.se/7544/

To balance my past ranting about the difficulties of researching without the benefits of an institution backing you, I'd like to mention how glorious it is to research whatever I feel like. And talk about inter-disciplinary! I've been all over the map (including back to long-neglected astronomy; side note: Celestia is the coolest freeware ever).

I've added the main public library to my list of resources, though I've not mastered using their system yet. They only have a few things on the shelves; you have to find things in the (rather antiquated) catalog and then send a member of staff to go fetch it for you. I'd rather browse. And it seems a great waste of paper; I hope they at least recycle the request slips.

I spent a whole day in there and didn't answer any of the questions I'd come in with but learned lots about tangential matters. If I was working on a paper with a deadline this would a distressing lack of progress. As it is, the stuff I learned was cool and so it's only mildly annoying that I've made no progress on my main topic.