Yeah, this conversation is drifting, I'm PMing you with some good news I found out tonight.

Except I have to mention this: We are doing "The Unsinkable Molly Brown". There are bookcases in the opening scene of Act 2 and three of the books have actual titles. One of them is "Surviving a Disaster at Sea" and another is "Mining in Colorado" Just thought it was funny.

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Some try to tell me, thoughts they cannot defend,... - Moody Blues.

Makes me miss theatre. And the Ovaltine ad I managed to convince our set designer to paint onto the stage for a production of Annie. Sigh... happy days....


And as for pre-modern life expectencies, the general pattern was that huge child mortaility rates drag down the average. For men, if you lived past about 15, you stood an excellent chance of living into your 60's and 70's, if not into your 80's and beyond. St. Anthony of Egypt is one of my favorite examples - it's generally agreed that he died in 356, AD, at the ripe old age of 106. On the other hand, life expectency for women was far lower, due to the high risks inherent in childbirth. Still, if a woman managed to survive that, she could also expect to live to a ripe old age. Granted, plagues, wars, and disasters would all complicate this picture, but those aren't things that went away with the end of the Middle Ages either.


And Rick Sternbach: Forgive the fanboy moment, but loved the design work on Star Trek, particularly DS9.