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smokingboot) wrote2020-11-24 08:46 am
smokingboot) wrote2020-11-24 08:46 am
Polishing this thing
For a light piece it's taking an awful lot of work. Too much second guessing going on. Hmm.
They're doing another Austen Readathon; Sense and Sensibility. I have declined this time, because it really isn't one of my favourites, and I've never got over Hugh Grant as Edward Ferrars, smothered under so much cravattitude he can barely move his head.
This man has no neck.
Anyhoooo.
Best Lady's got Covid.
Because she works at the Crick, she needs to get tested every week. She described 'sniffles and a headache,' and evinced surprised that she had enough of a viral load to show up on the test, but is basically asymptomatic beyond that. Here's hoping it will go as quickly and quietly as it came.
My genealogical studies are in disorganised lumps, near-guesswork piled under unprovable fancy filed next to 'I don't know, I suppose it's possible'. I have recently learned that in very rare cases, fathers can pass on Mtdna. When a thing is rare, my default is to assume it hasn't happened, but it would make sense of the Eastern European/Ukraine/Russian Jewish connection, which might be indicated by current findings. While my Mtdna haplotype has a lot in common with the Sephardic conversos traversing the continent and beyond, the potential Ashkenazi link is much less easy to explain. But there is one notable gap in the N.I section of my father's tree, and there were indeed Jewish communities in Belfast, long established and/or escaping from the progroms of Russia. But this would mean, not only that the Jewish male passed his Mtdna to his daughter, but that she then passed it to her daughter, who passed it to her son who passed it to his son who passed it to me. This theory would require the rare ability of a male human to pass on Mtdna to have not only occurred but be inherited and repeated by other males of the line. I don't know if that is even possible and wouldn't know how to begin proving it one way or the other.
Occam's Razor and all that.
And the tooth; well damn. When it hurts it really hurts; next visit to the dentist will entail needles and the old phobia is strong. I know what's coming and must build myself up to it.
And round we go, back to polishing this thing.
They're doing another Austen Readathon; Sense and Sensibility. I have declined this time, because it really isn't one of my favourites, and I've never got over Hugh Grant as Edward Ferrars, smothered under so much cravattitude he can barely move his head.
This man has no neck.
Anyhoooo.
Best Lady's got Covid.
Because she works at the Crick, she needs to get tested every week. She described 'sniffles and a headache,' and evinced surprised that she had enough of a viral load to show up on the test, but is basically asymptomatic beyond that. Here's hoping it will go as quickly and quietly as it came.
My genealogical studies are in disorganised lumps, near-guesswork piled under unprovable fancy filed next to 'I don't know, I suppose it's possible'. I have recently learned that in very rare cases, fathers can pass on Mtdna. When a thing is rare, my default is to assume it hasn't happened, but it would make sense of the Eastern European/Ukraine/Russian Jewish connection, which might be indicated by current findings. While my Mtdna haplotype has a lot in common with the Sephardic conversos traversing the continent and beyond, the potential Ashkenazi link is much less easy to explain. But there is one notable gap in the N.I section of my father's tree, and there were indeed Jewish communities in Belfast, long established and/or escaping from the progroms of Russia. But this would mean, not only that the Jewish male passed his Mtdna to his daughter, but that she then passed it to her daughter, who passed it to her son who passed it to his son who passed it to me. This theory would require the rare ability of a male human to pass on Mtdna to have not only occurred but be inherited and repeated by other males of the line. I don't know if that is even possible and wouldn't know how to begin proving it one way or the other.
Occam's Razor and all that.
And the tooth; well damn. When it hurts it really hurts; next visit to the dentist will entail needles and the old phobia is strong. I know what's coming and must build myself up to it.
And round we go, back to polishing this thing.
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I do know I've been extra diligent about oral hygiene during lockdown, the last thing I need is a close quarters trip to the surgery.
The DNA stuff is fascinating :)
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You'll be in my thoughts and I hope that all goes well for you...