HOME FRONT - no rain over Modesto so far ... I mean if we HAD HAD some they'd have held a parade and shot off champagne corks, ya know? We did have a bit of "rapidly passing over us dry thunder and lightning storm" but in the subsequent silence I heard no sirens hearkening to the call of fires ... not that I can hear it from ALL parts of the city, no, but the local news the next day mentioned nothing ...
Well, summer is passing and handing the baton off to autumn and with it we may get some torrential rains and if so we will see numerous mountain and hill sides all burned off do the avalanche thing ... ALMOST an annual series of events ...
Which reminds me that the Summer Olympics 2020 have been postponed to Summer of 2021, if all goes well -- if it is to be situated in Tokyo as was planned ... given some of the quakes and tsunami that afflict Japan aside from being a target of N. Korea now and then ... and the country, I have read, is majorly crowded anyway ... "if all goes well" may the mantra of this century
GENEALOGICALLY I have wended my merry way making connections with branches other PM have created ... I try to remember to leave a note about why I'm attaching so and so to their person's profile ... "Hello, it's me, again, so and so married my xyz cousin ... " and I'm about 2,600 profiles now -- and let me tell you, the way some of these people acted I could easily add another 200+ more profiles of their kids after the last 30 days of labor ...
One PM went so far as to offer me a more or less blanket permission to access the profiles he manages but so far they've all be Open (white padlock) ... I shall continue to cautious and try to remember to be gracious ...
AH and the green meanie profiles are very nicely dealt with, I have access, and I've used it ... Oh, happy daze are here again ...
GEN TALK -- at G2G it is the usual struggles about "why isn't my gedcom populating WikiTree" and "I loaded it, where is it" which is when some brave soul (other PM) ups and says, "Honey, it isn't automatic, you can load, but then you have to look at each on in Gedcompare, and then .... and really it's a tad bit faster if you just did it manually ..." and "btw, if you don't do all this, the gedcom will disappear in about x number of days " ... and then you can almost hear the long sad wail of a sax in a smokey nightclub ...
Saddest thing in the world to see, holding out a large tasty "join us and load your gedcom" lollipop to the kid and when the kid's about an inch from successfully grasping it ... Gives a whole new meaning to the words "... a howl of frustration rent the air ... " You do NOT want to be in the same room with someone who just found out there's no Easy Street by using a gedcom, and that if they had created profiles one by one, it would have been a lot easier on them ...
And all this comes with any number of bewildered questions of "what happened here??" from Newbies and Oldies alike -- I am SOOOOOO tempted to say something "funny" ... but I refrain ...
I love the ones that ask how to get rid of an spouse ... and it's me doing a kind of Dr. Strangelove sturggle with myself -- "oh, bite your tongue, Woman, go get a drink of water, chase the cat, anything but SAYING WHAT FIRST CAME TO YOUR MIND MIND (which will get you barred from G2G for 12 months!!" ...
Glad to see everyone is with us once again ... stay alert and careful ...