Today has been a bit of an odyssey & it's not even noon yet!

See, I set this alarm ~4mo ago, wanting to think it over & wait until I got settled after moving, but forgot abt it

Then last week I decided to buy a lyre (ancient instrument)... & into the rabbit hole we go! /1

Turns out, there're only a few makers of genuine ancient Greek-style lyres, & they're all out of my price range, so I started looking for something more like +/-$350, to see if I'll stick w/ it, before investing in something like this lovely work of art /2
https://luthieros.com/product/the-lyre-of-apollo-iii-ancient-greek-lyre-chelys-11-strings-top-quality-handcrafted-musical-instrument/

As of this morning, after spending hours searching last weekend, I was leaning toward buying the model in this picture, but was going to wait until next month.

In the meantime, I decided to go through every single video of the longest-running YouTube channel on the subject.../3

That channel is Michael Levy's (who doesn't appear to have a Twitter account. He's been making videos about things like this since **2006**.

So here's were is gets super weird... /4 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ1X6F7lGMEadnNETSzTv8A

So I scroll, and scroll, and scroll... until I get all the way to the very first, super bad resolution video that he posted, and...

HE'S PLAYING THE SAME DAMN MODEL I'M LEANING TOWARD BUYING in that video, that he made *13 years ago*.

(there's still more weirdness) /5

Earlier I messaged an old BFF going back 25 years, who happens to be a whiz w/ all stringed instruments, & w/in a fraction of a second of me opening a window to Twitter to start this thread, he responds to me about this, and this is the first tweet I see in my feed: /6

Not 2 minutes later, as I'm starting to type all of this out into tweet-sized bits of text, the alarm I set four months ago goes off, and I tell my friend:

"Okay, so this is getting creepy now. I vaguely remember setting this alarm months ago...". His reply is basically: /7