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Chutes and ladders
Mar. 18th, 2021 09:27 amI went out for a walk this morning. The sky is gray and heavy with rain. Today I have a martech workshop and I have to take DH for his vaccine. Slept pretty well. I like reading The Awakening before bedtime, since the lovely language is soothing. Especially after IMDY! I do find the images of Treme and IMDY floating through my head more than other TV shows. There was terrible shooting in Atlanta yesterday of Asian American women. Such a sick place.
Yesterday I hit some kind of rough water. I listened to Ken Liu's Paper Menagerie on my walk and it was just devastating and beautiful. Maybe that cracked open the levee a bit and let the sadness in? I made Irish soda bread and colcannon for dinner for some veg bangers and mash. We had a Guinness in the evening.
I also did a lot of genealogy, which lead me down the path to some dude named Aelfeat in Normandy in the 10th century. I found some relatives who settled out on the Cape in Dennis and Sandwich in the 1630's All of this is on my grandmother's side, which I thought was all Irish. Her grandma was a Partlow with this great lineage. Sir Robert de Clayton, Norman invasion, generations living in Lancashire before coming to the Mass Bay Colony. Quite a rush to travel the lines back in time. As far as Ireland is concerned, lots of green blood but you have to go to Great Great Grands. Still, really interesting stuff. Where am I from? Vikings + Franks + English + Celts + Germanic Tribes all fighting and fucking and sailing about the great white north. Probably not worth having my DNA tested!
And here I sit in Mass Bay Colony in my Grandmother's chair 1000 years later.
Yesterday I hit some kind of rough water. I listened to Ken Liu's Paper Menagerie on my walk and it was just devastating and beautiful. Maybe that cracked open the levee a bit and let the sadness in? I made Irish soda bread and colcannon for dinner for some veg bangers and mash. We had a Guinness in the evening.
I also did a lot of genealogy, which lead me down the path to some dude named Aelfeat in Normandy in the 10th century. I found some relatives who settled out on the Cape in Dennis and Sandwich in the 1630's All of this is on my grandmother's side, which I thought was all Irish. Her grandma was a Partlow with this great lineage. Sir Robert de Clayton, Norman invasion, generations living in Lancashire before coming to the Mass Bay Colony. Quite a rush to travel the lines back in time. As far as Ireland is concerned, lots of green blood but you have to go to Great Great Grands. Still, really interesting stuff. Where am I from? Vikings + Franks + English + Celts + Germanic Tribes all fighting and fucking and sailing about the great white north. Probably not worth having my DNA tested!
And here I sit in Mass Bay Colony in my Grandmother's chair 1000 years later.
