more playing in the journal and spoken English through time

Tuesday was a full day; coffee, breakfast, my biannual appointment to get my teeth cleaned (you make my job easy, she says, keep doing whatever you’re doing), grocery shop, lunch, walk the dog which included visiting with my friend at the other end of the street, feed the cats, fix dinner, clean up after dinner. My dinners usually revolve around what’s been in the fridge or freezer the longest. So Tuesday night was sautéed cabbage with onions and garlic, coarsely mashed dill new potatoes, and fried catfish. I did make time between feeding the cats and fixing dinner to work on the new page in the art journal I started on Monday, maybe even a bit in the morning, I really don’t remember. 

I worked on the jellyfish just a little on Monday but mostly on the new page. Wednesday though I finished the jellyfish unless I decide to paint a background. I’m leaving it as is for now, afraid I’ll mess it up if I do. Worked on the new page off and on all week and finished it today. 

We’re getting small showers off and on today which we sorely need, bringing in a new front that’s supposed to drop us in the 40s for lows, highs in the 60s for the next two weeks. Unless that changes which it surely will. Not even a half inch of rain today.

Can’t, won’t write about the cold blooded murder and the attack on the high school in Minneapolis yesterday or the shooting of two people by ICE in Portland. Of course Noem et al are lying about what happened, see nothing wrong with their agents appointing themselves judge, jury, and executioner, protecting the murderer. Appalling how many people think she deserved it for moving her car like they told her to. There’s a searing report on the lack of training, vetting, waiting for drug test results, literacy (apparently some of these goons can barely read or write); the only requirement needed is a tendency to brutality and a willingness to murder. We’re not quite at the point of lining people up in front of a trench and shooting them in the head but they have the personnel willing to do it.

Well, I guess I did write about it a little. 

Ok, so here’s a fun little thing I got off 1440 (I think). It’s about 10 minutes long and includes a reconstruction of spoken English from about 450 AD to modern English, spoken English changing about every three sentences. That part runs about 3 minutes. He plays it first without subtitles and again after talking about his research, with subtitles. I began to understand it starting around 1450.

From Old English to Modern American English in One Monologue