It looks like recovering from the flu after 80 does slow you down as it will have taken me four days to clean this week although I haven't put as much time into each day but just took it easy as I worked my way through the week. Probably wise. After all I am not going anywhere or having to do anything on a schedule except appointments which got cancelled and rebooked. Judging by my phone activity I need to buy a new phone and Rogers has sent me an email on that and a new FitBit. So when my daughter has time we will go and look at phones. I am not an expert in what I might want to have in a new phone. The old one does a reasonable job but appears to be showing its age. Today my FitBit did not record my sleep from 9:10 until 11:43 but I know I slept. Interesting really. One must as always be in control of the objects that help you in life.
Yesterday I finished the main floor and then vacuumed up the stairs (I love this Shop Vac for its efficiency on the stairs) and then did the top floor. I still have scrubbing of the bathrooms and the floors to do today and will fit that in a little later. But I am pleased that I got it all done and in a reasonable amount of time. Mind you I used to pay my daughter to clean the entire house on a Saturday although I used to scrub the bathrooms and kitchen leaving her with the more routine vacuuming and dusting. It was all done pretty much on the Saturday morning. So not so efficient at 80 for sure. At the same time my other daughter was washing all the clothes for which I paid her (she was just eight years of age when she took that on). It was lovely having such wonderful helpers right at hand. They didn't mind having the money either for a few hours of work. I think it is very respectful to pay one's children for the work that they do.
I am also down to just 34 matches to do for Chromosome 5. All of the crossover points with one exception have been proven. There isn't a match to prove this last one but it is likely correct as it comes very close to the end of the chromosome on one sibling and all of the visuals at GedMatch, 23 and Me, FT DNA, My Heritage and Living DNA show there to be a change in that general area on the chromosome for that particular sibling. So will continue to forge ahead with those matches and see what I can accomplish today. It would be nice to start on Chromosome 4 which is an interesting one in that very often four out of five siblings are matches in any particular area and there are just 84 matches for this chromosome with ten known matches and several of them quite large. Blake is particularly well served, a number of Pincombe but there are matches for all of the grandparents lines. I continue working my way towards Chromosome 1 which is the largest and where I in particular have a Blake chromosome which is continuous (no cross over points). For such a long chromosome there are five crossover points for one, four for two, three for one and myself two. Since I started at the First Chromosome when I first phased my grandparents DNA almost ten years ago now, that surprised me as I expected more at that time. I spent a very long time working on the rephasing but the changes have been subtle as I reworked it each year until 2020 when I got behind. It the the inclusion of the Living DNA results that have made this relook a little more intensive and again the changes are more a result of the different testing companies using different points to test and the changes are like plus or minus 1 around the crossover point. Since at this stage of the game this is not an exact science but rather a reasonable fit.
I thought about the H11 newsletter but will try to get to that today. I really do not find much in the literature on H11 as it is one of the smaller subclades of H although there are still likely well over a million members of this group worldwide with the bulk of them in Eastern Europe. There was a hint a while back that that might also extend into India and areas around that but I am still not really seeing that. But I do not think DNA testing has really arrived in India to any degree yet. Eastern Europe has been testing more in the last five years.
I would say that any effect of the flu shot has now passed and definitely I am on the mend from the flu although I am still eating a few more meals than normal as I work my way back up to my normal weight. A week of cleaning certainly slowed that process.
Tea drank, first breakfast eaten and solitaire puzzles to do.
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