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All good things must come to an end, so today we travel, north, chasing the storm. Which, fortunately, is tracking further inland than previously predicted. So our trip should be, knock on wood, uneventful.
Lots of wind Friday morning, lots of little branches down. Tuttle and The Nuke were fortunate as the power company had gone through the neighborhood last week trimming back a lot of the trees. Good forethought on their part.
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Up until Friday it was too hot, too humid, and far too loud inside the house. The kids, the dogs, the adults, nobody wanted to venture outside. Unless one likes being drenched in sweat.
I took a poll, ain't nobody got time for that.
But we did enjoy ourselves in the 21st Century joys of air conditioning.
Back to work on Monday to commence my last 131 calendar days of being employed. I am rather looking forward to being on vacation full time.
So we are headed back to the land of the ice and snow, but that's in the future for now ...
And because it's weird and strange, here's The Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin in Old Norse.
Great stuff.
Why yes, there is some Norse blood in the old veins somewhere, why do you ask? Can't have ancestors from Ireland, Scotland, and northern France without a Viking or two hanging about the old family tree, can ya?
Skål!!!
Listening to Old Norse was a good wakeup call to start the weekend, safe travels Sarge.
ReplyDeleteThat was great!
DeleteNylon12 - Made it home, traffic generally sucked.
DeleteRob - Get's the blood pumping.
DeleteDrive safe. There's a lot of idiocy on the roads nowadays.
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Man, this may be the best thing on the InterWeb this morning! Thanks Sarge, and safe travels!
ReplyDelete(If you are looking for (yet another) thing to read, Jackson Crawford out of Colorado has done new translations of some of the major Old Norse Works. His Traveler's Havamal is a side by side translation with Old Norse on one side and English on the other. Pretty neat to see the similarities and differences and see some words that have survived into Modern English.)
I did the DNA thing some years back and it seems I have a fair amount of Scandinavian history in my past. The physical history is Lithuania, Scotland and Germany.
ReplyDeleteSafe travels and a busy 131 days!
Lots of Norse influence in Northern Britain.
DeleteHot,, steamy and sticky. Not fun weather at all. Trapped in house with noisy people, not fun at all.
ReplyDeleteMusic, by the way, totally awesome.
Saturday broke warm with a noticeable lack of humidity. Kids will be outside today I think.
DeleteHope you have/had a safe trip home! Visiting family is important! We’re babysitting MBD and the Rev’s kids in a couple of weeks. They need a little He & She time. Looking forward to spoiling the grandkids a bit.
ReplyDelete131 and counting. All is well!
juvat
Trip was no fun, many, many idiots out there.
DeleteGlad to see that you ran the gauntlet successfully, Sarge! Dorothy was right; "there's no place like home!"
ReplyDeleteWe got a fresh infusion of Norse from paternal grandmother; first generation in this country. Good stock, which took me longer to appreciate than it should have.
Keep counting down, Sarge; you'll still work, you just won't have a job. The first is much better than the second, trust me.
Boat Guy
Work, work ...
DeleteWait ...
Work! Because I want to.
Sarge, thanks for sharing. Jackson Crawford out of the University of Colorado does a lot of work with Old Norse. I have his translations of The Poetic Edda and The Saga of the Volsungs. He also has made a more recent translation of The Havamal with a side by side translation of the Old Norse and English. Delightful stuff.
ReplyDeleteAn interesting language!
DeleteWhen I learned to box the compass many years ago N by E was the point between due N and NNE, NE by N was the point between NNE and NE. N by NE makes no sense to me, but is it different for American nautical stuff?
ReplyDeleteBTW, having just spent 3 weeks moving from California to Connecticut, I suppose I should change my name to match and hope that doesn't do bad things to your comments system...
North by northeast, so I learned, is a point north of NE.
DeleteCalifornia to Connecticut? That's one heck of a move distance-wise!
(The comment system won't freak out if you change your handle to "Bloke from Connecticut.")
So it's what I think of as northeast by north then; glad we sorted that out!
DeleteMy wife's son has been here for 6 years, and it seems grandchildren are on the distant horizon. She was moving with or without me! :-)
The Yanks and the Brits, separated by a common language. 😁
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