A changed member has returned.

[John Watt]

trying a new video

This video, about my bedroom, is going to be linked to my computer.
I'll try that, and if it doesn't work I'll put it up on youtube.

It said the file is too large. I'll be back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbqt3VUNOx8&feature=youtu.be

I still can't embed, even this bedroom video. 1:52 minutes long.

FOREWARNING! An active dose of Teslage is alive in my bedroom.

In case anyone is wondering,
The bamboo I attached around my headboard are for chiropractic exercise,
and the towels are for lying on after a bath or coming in from the rain.
The cabinet to the left was a 1949 wedding gift to my parents,
from my great-uncle Jack who had a lumber yard, being a master carpenter.
Some of my earliest memories are jumping into his wood chip piles.
DISCLAIMER! The showing of Buchanan tartan is not a call for arms.
The Highland cap and authentic Holy Bible being displayed just for show.
As if.

Turn it up loud. You should love the music and sound.

 

[teddy]

Managed to open your piano video John. Also caught some of the cycle ones on Youtube.

teddy

 

[John Watt]

Yeah! JHC just uploaded one and then realized it can't be me, not even my country.
You can see trying to be new with new technology does, uh, get the best of me.
Maybe I should take photos of recent artwork and haunt the art section for a while.
I put up twelve bike-hike photos in new members in the bobbing from down under thread,
so I hope I didn't use up my quota. The guitar is next.
The guitar hasn't been playable since I moved here, but I've kept my fingers going.

To be completely open and honest about my semi-solid-body,
Mr. George Gruhn, www.gruhn.com, says he no longer has any desire to communicate with me.
That really disappoints me. I wish he told me why, but I'm leaving it there.

 

[John Watt]

This is my tartan collection, even if most of them aren't real tartans. As a Watt descendant, a clan without a tartan, I can legally wear any tartan, so close enough is good enough for me.
The Buchanan cloth up front is a piece of tablecloth from a wedding in a Scottish castle. My father's father had a shirt made out of it, too small for me. I gave it to my father's Scottish lawyer after my father passed away.
The lace was made, tatted, by my mother's grandmother, coming from another castle in Scotland.
The Highlander cap and Holy Bible are ceremonial, and the pipes and kilt are in a museum in London, England. My father's father brought them over for himself and I've inherited them. The Holy Bible is nice, very old, authentic, but unused as far as turning pages. The gilt edges look nice. My father didn't even show this to me while he was alive, having comments about the shame of Scottish people for keeping the additional chapters as for use in the Church of Scotland only.
The first time I took this outside to show it to interested people, having a walking route planned, a city worker who said he was Italian came up to me on a sidewalk, asking to see it. He tore the first page out of it, black on the front, blank on the back. As he walked away I said don't worry, that's probably how you live your life, more than one page short.
"Keeping a Natural Attitude in Perfect Harmony, Muskoka Lakes", with a detailed embroidery of an Ontario native with two feathers in his hair, is the label in the jacket across the top, a wonderful find at a Salvation army. During one televised mayoral debate, I held up souvenirs sold at city hall up to it, not only saying they were made in China, but weren't even the same red as the Canadian flag, the red from this tartan.
The one pair of yellow pants were bought new at Sears in 1982. I took a chance, spending a couple of hours snipping off the little balls that were part of the weave, and these pants won't die.
The yellow corduroy pants are hip-hop style, not low at the crotch, not too baggy, looking puffy and creamy, nice. Sold to me by a sign customer who said he sold the smaller sizes, offering these to me for $10. I've been wearing them for over five years. The gold and green define Buchanan and Royal Buchanan tartan, and I've always liked yellow pants, having more satin than anything else.
Yes, those are purple hangers. Even Jimi Hendrix would get off wearing some shirts like these.
The cream pants with the beige and brown are new, bought from a maybe new mural customer who rents and sells interesting clothes, three weeks old, flared. When I wore these into Dietrick's Men's Wear, known for ranting about not buying Ontario made any more, Dietrick doubled over laughing, two executive customers looking worried, but he said "Apex Pants, Toronto, 1972, I sold those pants".
The Buchanan scarf across the top was part of a display at a women's store, made in France, and they sold it to me after it was over.
My father showed me the cap and tam when I was young, saying he bought them for me and I'd grow up to wear them some day. I forgot about that, finding them after he passed away.
The Scottish silver on the Highlander cap has never been polished, and it's never been tarnished.
May All Peace Be Upon You,
agus-oo-hane a haritch, you as well friend, and
bay-an-uck let, Blessings on You.
as always, Master John Alexander Hay Watt,
known to be a Prince of Scotland.
And kings and queens of Scotland were elected,
mostly for their singing and dancing abilities.

 

[John Watt]

As far as the bedroom tour video goes, what is the best and only musical part,
I'm surprised no-one has commented on Frederik Magle's music in the background.
I'm still planning on ordering a couple of discs,
and what I did here was get a free online sample going through my computer speakers.
They are Altec Lansing powered speakers, really nice, and could have been louder.
The video is black at the start, aiming my camera towards the room they're in,
because "Like a Flame" would burn my Blue Brain.