Presumptive champions
My preferred portion of the Games has started. Team Homan has just thrown their opening rocks against the “home town favourites” from Korea. Many ends to go, but I have high confidence in the win by the presumptive World champions.
Around the house, all afternoon, waiting for my sign of spring (delivered flowers). Outside, enough glaze on the walkway to turn any effort to reach the front door into a physical exploit. I went with the safe option and opened the garage door at the crucial moment.
Happened to catch a Facebook Live ‘cast of the final few minutes on air of a DJ that I used to know, a long time ago. He helped me master the act of ice skating more quickly. Little did I think (then) that I’d be watching the waterworks as he bid goodbye to what may have been his only job in life. More than four decades, according to the other lad in the studio. On the air for longer than the other lad has been alive is another way of presenting the age difference. I didn’t have the same emotional involvement in my workplace; I didn’t cry on the way to the bus stop.
Meanwhile, son #3 may have found a new job. I’m unsure; this comes from interpreting his messages on FB (my main reason for staying on social media is to get news from the kids). Must get in touch and find out how things are evolving.
And in the local news, the following clip. I live in a gentle world…
