...be about your pain meds. ;) Seems like something good should come out of it.

The drought piece reminds me of Ohalo II, one of the more important early Epi-paleolithic sites from the margins of Lake Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee).

"In combat one should be very suspicious of painless moral choices. When you are confronted with a seemingly painless moral choice, the odds are that you haven't looked deeply enough." ~ Karl Marlantes

Yup, in life, that's the way it goes...