It might just be me, but I miss being able to purchase tracks from The Voice on iTunes. It used to be a big part of the show but it must have cost too much money or the licensing liability somehow too great. Nevertheless, it was something I enjoyed.
There’s a lot to be said for learning the hard way. I am deeply impatient with myself. I was attempting to restring a guitar I was gifted with many years ago—because I want to really dig in and learn. I broke the first new string in my eagerness. So now I wait for replacements to arrive.
Follow me through time?
I’ve spent a majority of my time today plotting out my genetic ancestry. Remains discovered in various parts of the world have had DNA survive and have been subsequently sequenced. None of the finds are clearly direct lineage, but do match between one and three segments of my DNA and therefore we share ancestry. Of hundreds or more shared with the worlwide scientific community, there are 31 so far that connect with me. In this list, only one, two or three DNA segments match any of mine.
These are some of the places people with shared ancestry have ended their journeys. Dates are best effort estimates, not lifespans. Locations are where remains were discovered, though this doesn’t tell the story of their origins.
| Date | Location |
|---|---|
| 1596 to 1439 BCE | Bylkyldak, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan |
| 700 to 600 BCE | La Mattonara, Civitavecchia, Italy |
| 414 to 211 BCE | Tugen Gorge, Kazakhstan |
| 82 to 316 CE | Roman Period Celt, Dorset County UK |
| 100 to 400 CE | Rákóczifalva, Hungary |
| 400 to 600 CE | Rákóczifalva, Hungary |
| 665 to 865 CE | Ship Street, Dublin |
| 700 to 800 CE | Salme, Saaremaa, Estonia (x2) |
| 700 to 1000 CE | Tollemosegård, Zealand, Denmark |
| 800 to 900 CE | Finglas, County Dublin, Ireland (x2) |
| 800 to 900 CE | Sørherøy, Herøy, Nordland, Norway |
| 800 to 900 CE | Kil søndre, Stjørdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway |
| 800 to 1000 CE | Balladoole, Isle of Man |
| 800 to 1100 CE | Galgedil, Funen, Denmark (x2) |
| 800 to 1100 CE | Kärda, Småland, Sweden |
| 850 to 950 CE | Bakkendrup, Zealand, Denmark |
| 880 to 1002 CE | St. John’s College, Oxford, UK |
| 900 to 1000 CE | Tussøy, Tromsø, Troms, Norway |
| 900 to 1050 CE | Frojel, Gotland, Sweden |
| 900 to 1100 CE | Ridgeway Hill Mass Grave, Dorset, UK |
| 900 to 1200 CE | Varnhem, Skara, Västergötland, Sweden (x2) |
| 900 to 1200 CE | Ladoga, Leningrad Oblast, Russia |
| 900 to 1300 CE | Hofstaðir, Mývatnssveit, Iceland |
| 993 to 1113 CE | Kastlösa, Öland, Sweden |
| 1500 to 1700 CE | Sandur, Sandoy, Faroe Islands (x3) |
My Great Grandfather, my mothers’s mother’s father (mormors far?) was from Sweden and swore that he was of Viking blood. I am living testament.
I learned of my genetic ties to a part of the UK where only as recently as this year did we learn was the strongest evidence in Europe of matrilineal society.
I think I may finally understand what the erasure actually is, how deep it goes, and what we have been pretending it was about.
I was going to write a long post, but the gist is that I’m no longer waiting for the Journal app to appear on my iPad or Mac. Notes is the way. I’m already there.
That feeling when I have to reset the password I just reset because somehow it didn’t stick or what I thought I typed and confirmed isn’t what I typed and confirmed.
When your first few hours of PTO include communication with co-workers to coordinate support, and a vendor who means well but didn’t quite email the correct folks.
But I am sitting in my home office sipping coffee with my wife. So I have that going for me, which is nice. Which is nice.