Six degrees of video wandering
With a good coffee beside me, and YouTube open; time to play a bit of “six degrees” and see where we end up. Here we go.
From Ryan’s Fancy, to Denis Ryan, via a disparaging remark about Michael Flatley, to Jean Butler, to the Gathering of 2013. A good road, replete with memories of places I’ve been and places I haven’t. Is that even possible? How about ancestral memories? My people came from Ireland and Scotland, in no particular order. The only common factor was the church alignment and the neighbourhood.
The Jean Butler video led to others; that’s the nature of the YouTube experience. I’m going to leave a breadcrumb, right here, so I can come back (if the birds don’t harvest the bits). What I learned, during my hour away from my own reality, is that I look like my people. At times I sound like my people. And I’d be a lot more willing to break bread with them, than with (for example) the leaders of my own country. Just saying.
Anyhow, we’re into weekend watch. Awaiting an effort: snow tires. I’m not sure the job will get done in the next few (although it should). Suffice to say that the snow has only fallen, once, and we need that warning. Otherwise, it would be summer segueing into shock and awe.
I had another “easy” day at work, with a single laptop transfer to keep me on task. Got the job done and scored a ride home (much faster than city transit, which seems to be sliding into sloppy; almost two hours yesterday). Compare that with a quick twenty minutes in the passenger seat and you can sense the difference.
