Thorn Wilde

Hi, Val! Goodnight, everyone! I've crawled into bed. My body is acting funny and I'm tired.

I saw a TV programme about it years ago. Always found it very fascinating. The domestication syndrome that he mentions at the end there is really interesting. In the north of Norway you'll see it in domesticated reindeer, herded by the indigenous population, the Sámi. Wild reindeer are uniformly brown and grey. The domesticated ones range from completely white to nearly black. It's all very cool.

Hi, Clo!

The Lord's Prayer in Gaelic: In Old Norse: And in Norn, which was spoken in Shetland: I love linguistics!

It uses the Norse symbols for the th sound. ð is th as in 'this'. þ is th as in 'forth'. I could also read it quite easily based on my knowledge of Norwegian, Swedish and (a little bit of) Icelandic. I think Gaelic is actually further removed from old English than Norse is.

I ate real food today!

Guessing it's the beginning of The Lord's Prayer? It's actually really similar to Norse...

Not too bad today, thanks. Yourself?

Hi, Albert!

Know that feeling... That list is never ending.

Hi, Caz! Comparatively, yeah. Yourself?

I don't think you're quite the only one. If you want to know whether there's hope for Loz, you'll just have to read on.

I tried to give Tesla that kind of thing. Vigor and Sage. She ate it at first, but then I got a bag of Royal Canine from a friend whose cat had chewed a hole in it but couldn't eat it. Couldn't let that go to waste, so I fed her that. Now she doesn't want Vigor and Sage anymore... Hey, Page! Assuming you're referring to Frozen. Since that movie was set in a fictionalised fantasy version of Norway, it's a reindeer. Of course, we have our own reindeer riding folk hero. Meet Per Gynt: I do not feel thirty at all. My brain is convinced I'm still in my mid-twenties. Also, hi! Are very tasty.

There’s a statue in Oslo of someone riding one... it’s a fairytale character, though.

Goodnight!

It wasn’t easy. I struggled a lot for a while, but things got better. Been 20 years now, so I’ve made my peace. Morning, Gary! Hope you’re well! I’m only 30... Hi, B. What time is it for you?

Morning, Parker!

My dad was 51. Aorta aneurism. I was 11. It’ll be 20 years in July. But the world goes on.

You’re a year older than my dad would have been.

For those of us who feel suboptimal. Also for @BHopper2 because chicken soup.

That’s good! Glad you’re healthy.

Putting this here too, so maybe we can lay take 2 to rest... From writer/director Desiree Akhavan and based on the celebrated novel by Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night. Run by the strict and severe Dr. Lydia Marsh (Jennifer Ehle) and her brother, Reverend Rick (John Gallagher Jr.)—himself an example of how those in the program can be “cured”—the center is built upon repenting for “same sex attraction.” In the face of intolerance and denial, Cameron meets a group of fellow sinners including the amputee stoner Jane (Sasha Lane), and her friend, the Lakota Two-Spirit, Adam (Forrest Goodluck). Together, this group of teenagers form an unlikely family as they fight to survive.

So I noticed.

Morning, Dugh! We've got snow, but temperature is hovering at 0°C, so it's not really staying. Hi, Marty! Went okay, yeah. I have a persistent virus, not much to be done, but she prescribed me an anti-emetic, so at least I can eat now. How's you?

If Loz had any close friends in the first place, things might have gone very differently. Thanks, as ever, for commenting.