"Welcome to the Weekend Chat!" All Members Invited!! March 25th - 27th, 2022 [closed]

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"Welcome to the Weekend Chat!" All Members Invited!! March 25th - 27th, 2022 [closed]

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CHANGE TO BEST ANSWER PROCESS: After much discussion we have come to the conclusion that all answers in the Weekend Chat are of equal importance and weight. So we are going to discontinue the Best Answer portion as it adds points and then takes them away from posters and is causing some hurt feelings. So in the interest of everyone is equal and valued we will delete any best answers given which will deduct those points because it has been pointed out that to give everyone best answer is also not a viable option.

Weekend Chat is for everyone. It's a place to catch up on what people are up to and to share what you've been doing. New members can say hello, introduce themselves, ask questions, and meet each other. Our seasoned members can share progress or successes from their projects, give tips and advice, or chime in on hot topics.

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WikiTree profile: Pip Sheppard

closed with the note: See y’all sooner than you think!

asked Mar 25, 2022 in The Tree House by Pip Sheppard G2G Astronaut (2.7m points)
closed Mar 28, 2022 by Pip Sheppard

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Thanks for hosting, Pip, and glad you're getting your new house shipshape! With the unsettled weather (ice storms, power outages, then sunny 50° days) we have all we can do to keep our 100+ year old house from falling down! (That is to say, the Hubster does, mostly, though I shovel, stack wood and keep the place from turning into a pigsty.)

I got the Republic for $1 in a yard sale but haven't cracked it yet. Aristotle wasn't too bad, at least regarding his impact on the theatre...I wrote a paper on it in grad school. Kierkegaard was my stumbling block.

As Marty said, real estate turns around pretty quickly here in MI. I'm surprised you don't have folks lining up already and trying to outbid each other. Don't despair!

Back to work now. Will post more later. Ciao!

commented Mar 26, 2022 by D Armistead G2G6 Mach 8 (83.0k points)

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Answer 1 · 2022-03-25T13:44:34+0000

Well, if this ain't a big howdy-do...

Another week gone and I don't feel a day younger.

I think we're finally trying to break into Spring, weather wise. Warming to mid 60's today, up to 80 by Tuesday. 33^oF right now but sunny. Time to get out and stare at the sun.

I'm still eating that beef (second one) stew that I made Wednesday and the cornbread. Did a double batch of that too. I put most of the first stew in the freezer so it'll be there when I feel like having it some more next month. Here I am, single, and I've got enough food to last a year or more. Probably could feed 10 people for that long. Never hurts to prepare, I guess, tornado season coming up.

Got some more stuff done on Wikitree this week. Added some more family. Looking forward to next month's connect-a-thon-er. This will be my first one. I've done 2 sourcerthonthingys so, I reckon this will be a new challenge.

Pip, I was thinking of how to pack some frozen stew in dry ice for shipping. Cheaper just to follow my recipe (and Mom's). Get a good, lean beef tips or stew meat for the base. A beef broth for starter helps, too. I put a couple of fresh Jalapenoes in my last 2. Just enough to taste it without it biting back.

O well... on we go.

Answer 2 · 2022-03-25T14:30:48+0000

Good Morning! Thanks once again for hosting our chat Pip.

I missed last week but for a good reason. My husband and I left home on Tuesday of last week for a trip to Louisiana and Mississippi. We stopped to see his sister and niece in Houma, Louisiana. His sister has been placed on Hospice care but we found her to be better than we anticipated. Then, we went to Mississippi for a small reunion of retired helicopter pilots and wives. There were eleven of us who visited, ate, listened to war stories and the wives played board games with one ear tuned to the stories. We have known these folks for decades - some were in flight school and/or Vietnam together and the others we met during their careers in the helicopter industry. Because of Covid we did not meet last year so it was great to see everyone again. They came from California, North Carolina, Maine and we came from Texas. The host couple live in Mississippi and accommodated all of us from Thursday through Monday.

Needless to say, I did not do much in the way of genealogy but I have recruited two new WT members - I will be helping them join and will work on their trees soon. I have signed up for the April Thon and will begin making my lists of profiles to add.

Take care and have a great week ahead!

Answer 3 · 2022-03-25T15:05:07+0000

Haven't done much on WT the last couple of weeks. Just re-formatting some things others have done to my profiles ... picky, picky, picky!

We just hooked up to our city's new fiber optic internet system. They've been working on this for several years and just got around to our neighborhood. Several towns in the area are doing similar work. So, after years and years of having 2Mb service we're now up to 30Mb ... woo hoo! Could get as much as a gig but we don't need that. Service includes TV and land line phone.

Having done that internet upgrade I thought it was about time for a computer upgrade ... it had been 10-11 years. So, here I am with my new Dell XPS 8950 and Windows 11. Having waited so long I'm upgrading lots of stuff. HDMI cables for my display, replacing programs that have been obsoleted, downloading other programs. Still working on trying to get Visual Studio up and running. Wrote some programs many years ago and I'd like to get them running again.

Oh, and yesterday I jumped into Spring by pruning the backyard apple tree. Need to haul those limbs to the re-cycle center today.

Answer 4 · 2022-03-25T15:11:29+0000

Greetings from beautiful southeastern Arizona, where the weather has finally begun warming up. Afternoon temps today will reach the 80s for the first time this year. Yeah! I planted seeds for snapdragons and moss roses last week, but I haven't seen any sprouts yet. Also, trimmed the autumn sage back, and I'm waiting to see new growth. It's been quite a few weeks since I posted to chat.

Writing: At the beginning of this month, I was the guest author at our local Open Mic Night. The audience seemed to enjoy my talk, and I even sold a few books. Two of my beta readers were there, and I found out our fiction writing group was meeting again. I attended that last evening. I had given up on trying to transcribe one of John's letters (a 20+ page diatribe filled with anger!) and had returned to revising my novel.

Yesterday, one of the historical society members finally sent me images of the documents I needed from their archive. (Some of my initial pictures weren't clear enough to transcribe.) So I'll go back to transcribing those.

Genealogy: Haven't had time to do anything. My original thought was to start at the O'Connells (1500s) and work my way down. But, I don't understand how their children would be shown as born somewhere else. When I have a chance, instead I'll start with the Brennans and work back.

I've answered private messages. The first was about John Mathews's illegitimate son John Jr. They thought he was born in 1790 in Massachusetts. From John's journal, letters, and his location in the frontier at this time, it cannot be the same person. John Jr. was born sometime about 1798 in the territory.

The second was about the Alger family. I had added the siblings for Increase's first wife, Abigail Willis. Her youngest sister Lucy married Cyrus Alger. Going to quote from their message: "have been researching Cyrus Alger and Francis Alger and their businesses in and contributions to South Boston and the United States. I am looking for any living descendants of the Algers who might know more about them or have history on them. For two men who were so prominent and contributed so much, I'm surprised at how little we have found so far."

I'm afraid I couldn't help him. I had added everything I could find to Cyrus's profile when I created it. If any of you know more, I'll send you Tom's email address.

Well, I need to get ready to go volunteer host at the senior center. Hope each and every one of you has a wonderful weekend!

Answer 5 · 2022-03-25T15:33:04+0000

Thank You for hosting the Chat Pip.

Musings form The North Coast.

Weather, It has been quite nice for a change. All of the snow is gone and we are drying out, but not too much because we are getting a little rain now and then.

On the Home Front, Things have calmed down a bit since last weekend. To bring you up to date the 2 granddaughters in North Carolina are on the mend, one with 2 wrists taped up and the other recovering from her surgery. The great granddaughter who had problems Sunday night is doing fine now as well. On Monday one grandson tried to do a forward squat lifting 400 pounds, light for him, and tweaked his back but he will be fine and another grandson hit his head on some metal at work giving him a gash but he is also fine. The tornado drill was cancelled on Wednesday due to severe weather, go figure we can't have a drill because we just might get the real thing. The grandsons wedding took place on Wednesday as well. I got the beginnings of a new radio project that day as well and I should soon have everything I need to start assembling a "new", to me at least, radio. I am going the age old amateur radio way of taking an old radio designed for a different service and modifying it to use on the amateur bands.

Genealogy, I created a couple of profiles for Notables and ham radio operators as well as the normal adding sources and otherwise improving profiles on my watchlist. One profile I created was for a Notable who was also a ham radio operator, there was actually more than one but this is the only one everyone can see. He fit in the free space project I help with. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Collins-32938

No blogs this week, I just ran out of time.

Answer 6 · 2022-03-25T15:52:11+0000

Hails and horns, Wikipeeps!

Okay. We are one week away from the grand reveal. The 1950 census is coming and are we pumped? I know I am! I have a little over a dozen ancestors in my first thirty who I know will be in the US Census. I also have four 2nd great-grandparents who were around at the time but wouldn't be in the census as they were in Italy. This is also the first one with my parents. So, that is gonna be fun!

In other news, I wrote a blog about how Italians in Haverhill came together to form a community: https://allroadhaverhill.blogspot.com/2022/03/52-ancestors-week-12-joined-together.html Did it start with one man or many? Who can say?

On the non genealogy front, I am a bit annoyed at Gamestop. Gamestop, if you aren't aware, is a store where you buy video games and collectibles. Gamestop has always been iffy with me. For example, one time I brought back a faulty game and the clerk literally gave the disc the old spit shine. I....didn't take it back.

I ended up buying stuff online and this week I was expecting a preorder come in for a special Captain America figure. I got my order and found it was a Spidey figure I had already bought. Apparently it was a common thing because someone at the packing plant was reading the orders incorrectly and many people got a Spidey figure when they should have gotten Cap.

I called Gamestop and told them what happened. The customer support lady was very nice and apologetic. I told her it was fine. There were no returns. But, she did give me a refund. I ended up using the refund money to preorder at BBTS. Probably the safest thing to do. I also sent the extra figure to a friend of mine.

So, I think I am going to cross Gamestop off of my list for a while. It's a shame because the last order I got from them came pretty quickly.

Anyway, last Wednesday was my great-aunt's 99th birthday and I e-mailed her daughter, Cathie, to wish Nickie a good one. Here's hoping she makes it to 100! Longevity seems to run in the family so it's possible!! At least that's what my cousins in Europe say.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Answer 7 · 2022-03-25T16:07:05+0000

Hi from southern Ontario,

Chez moi/at home: what's happening here? I have crocuses that opened yesterday, its spring! Though with this forecast for the next few days perhaps not!

Saturday, 6 C and rain, Sunday -1C and cloudy, Monday -4C partly sunny, Tuesday 1 C and sunny, Wednesday, zero and freezing rain and after that below normal for the following 10 days. Actual spring like weather has been getting later and colder for several years.

Genealogy: Cousin Sharon continues to do research for the Alton Cemetery project, I didn't do anything on the project because I fell down a deep rabbit hole this week.

Last week I posted this late in the chat ' I was contacted thru WT by a non-member who is Robbie's 3rd cousin. She has family pictures from the 1860s! And apparently one of the pictures shows black (African American) children on the porch of the house, she is wondering if the family was somehow involved in the Underground Railroad. Perhaps unlikely given where the family lived, but perhaps possible.'

The person sent several pictures, they look like snapshots taken after personal cameras became common, further information from the family member and the background scenery on the photos strongly suggests that they were taken on a family vacation to Bermuda.

A few days later, from a research paper I found evidence for the only black/ mulatto family living in the correct area of Peel County at the appropriate time. I researched the family and created profiles for them. Census records show that the father was born abt 1793 in Virginia and was probably a slave. The children in the photos are not associated with the family I researched.

It's all a bit sad, as his 3 sons died without marrying and have no recorded children, his daughter married late and had no children. With no evidence of parents, it seems like the family will remain unconnected forever. The bonus even if just for me is I now know far more about the history of black settlement in Peel County, Ontario.

What else: My older daughter is in England on a business trip for a week, she will be visiting family as well.

Trip planning: after much discussion we have decided not to visit Belfast while in Ireland, primarily because there are 2 significant neolithic archaeological sites we want to visit; Newgrange, a 5,200 year old passage tomb and Lough Gur Ireland's biggest and oldest stone circle, evidence of human life in the area goes back 6000 years, starting in the Neolithic era.

Answer 8 · 2022-03-25T16:32:39+0000

Virtual Vacation!

Today we are going on a trip to somewhere high in the mountains. The trip starts at 6,320 feet altitude and ends at 14,115 feet altitude. Somewhere close to Manitou Springs, Colorado. Where is this? Pikes Peak, we rode the Pikes Peak Cog railway to the top on 27 April 2008. The railway has been climbing Pikes Peak since June 30, 1891, many of the older locomotives were built by Baldwin Locomotive Works. Construction on the line was started in 1889.

These pictures were all taken 27 April 2008 by me.

The Manitou Springs station.

A cog or rack railway is used on steep grades with a toothed rack rail, usually between the running rails. The trains are fitted with one or more cog wheels or pinions that mesh with this rack rail. It's a lot like the system used on steep upslopes on roller coasters. This allows the trains to operate on steep grades above 10%, which is the maximum for friction-based rail. Grades on the cog railway are 12% and sometimes even 24%.

The terrain the train travels through is stunning and the views from the top are wonderful. The Bristlecone pine trees along the train track are some of the oldest living things on Earth, and likely over 2,000 years old. At the station in Manitou Springs, at 6,320 feet it was warm enough that a jacket was not needed, at the top I wished I had worn a parka, the usual temp difference is 30 F colder at the top.

These are Bristlecone pines not too far above the station.

Further up the mountain

Windy point at 12,129 feet

At the top and 14,115 feet the amount of oxygen in the air is much less than at the Manitou Springs station and dramatically less than at sea level. The air doesn't feel thin as is often the description but breathing and walking does take a lot of effort.

Yes that's us the intrepid explorers!

One of the great views from the top

When we visited Bryce Canyon NP, some areas were above 9000 feet, the extra 5000 feet in height at Pike's Peak is very different.

This photo is taken from the train on the way back down, lots of snow still left at the end of April.

You can drive to the top it's 19 miles one way with an estimated 162 turns and switchbacks and according to the official advice can use as much a half a tank of gas.

The cog railway was closed from October 2017 until recently after it was discovered that the railbed was unsafe. There was a likelihood that it would not re-open, as estimated costs to replace the over 100 year old tracks and other equipment was 100 million dollars, later the financing got worked out and the railway reopened in May 2021.

Answer 9 · 2022-03-25T17:49:14+0000

Shiny object alert!

I have this family portrait which is in pristine condition 120 years after it was made. These are my Hurd great grandparents with their older children; my paternal grandmother, Faye, is the little girl up front. The fine condition of the photo piqued my interest in the photographers who produced it. Researching the silver imprint from the upper right corner led me to a blogpost which informed me that this studio was run by lady photographers. That led to musings about whether my great grandparents were making intentional choices in order to inspire their daughters. The family already had an established tradition of setting high standards for their childrens' education and community involvement regardless of sex.

A few more Google searches brought up this entertaining and well researched podcast on Clara Ober-Towne, Anna Wing Towne, and Miss Alma Whitney.

I've been working all week on the skills I would need to share this diversion with you all during Women's History Month. Enjoy!

http://p3photographers.net/p3p007/

Blogpost mentioned earlier: https://www.langdonroad.com/apps/blog/show/6533168-towne-whitney-lady-photographers-of-west-gardner-worcester-co-massachusetts-1898

Answer 10 · 2022-03-25T18:42:01+0000

Greetings from Hot Hot HOT Phoenix, Arizona! It is Friday, March 25^th and Phoenix is headed toward a high of 94F and sunny skies.

My sister, Bonny, daughter Jennifer and I returned from New York City last night and I caught the flight from Milwaukee to Phoenix at 6am today. My car is getting its annual checkup as I write. I've had all of 4 hours sleep.

We arrived at our NYC hotel just off Times Square via subway from LaGuardia on Sunday. Bonny and I managed to get tickets to Music Man, 3^rd row orchestra that afternoon for $150 each. A nice man had purchased 4 tickets for himself, his wife, a relative and spouse, but the relative became ill. The show was awesome and Wolverine was totally brilliant as Henry Hill. The lead for Marian the Librarian was Sutton Foster, a popular Broadway lead. Both she and Hugh Jackman had a ‘moment’ toward the end of the show where they just stood and looked at each other biting their lips to not laugh out loud. This ‘meet cute’ moment lasted about 2 full minutes and the audience caught on that ‘something’ had occurred just prior to this curtain entrance and laughed with the knowledge that the ‘willing suspension of disbelief’ was lifted for a brief moment and we were all in it together. A wonderful and really terrific show. Oh, and did I mention the children? These young performers were outstanding! Jackman not was terrific in giving recognition to his colleagues on stage. Following a song and dance routine with Foster, Jackman and 11 y/o Benjamin Pasek, who plays ‘Winthrop’ the audience went crazy. Hugh Jackman put is pointer finger on ‘Winthrop’s’ head and looked around the audience to make sure that this young performer got his due.

Other highlights were a boat tour around Manhattan getting the history of the various names derived from the Indigenous tribes, the Dutch and English settlers. We took photos of Trinity Church (I got snaps of headstones), Hamilton’s grave, the Wall Street bull, location where Washington was sworn in and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). That bronze of the little girl facing off with the bull is now facing off at the front of the NYSE. We also did the on/off bus tour around northern Manhattan, including Harlem, and southern Manhattan. We ended up following the on/off tour at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar next to the Kettle of Fish, a Packer bar and had drinks with one of the fellows, Thomas, we met last September during the Packer/Lyons game at Kettle. Thomas is working on his PhD in philosophy (topic: Nietzsche). He will be presenting a paper from his dissertation in San Diego in May and another at Oxford in June! Another September friend, Derrick, who did our Haarlem tour last year, met with Bonny and me at our hotel just to ‘catch up.’

A real highlight for the three of us was the “Hard Hat” tour of the hospital on Ellis Island! Bonny and I heard about this last September, but were too late then to get on a tour. At that time, the tour was $30 and all proceeds go to the restoration of the hospital. We signed up for our tour, which was on Tuesday. The cost is now $50. It is truly well worth the cost and this tour literally requires a hard hat. The docent was very knowledgeable and explained how children with scalp ringworm, for example, were separated from family and placed in the children’s ward for treatment which included repeated applications of pine tar, then pulling it off (along with hair) repeatedly until there was no longer any ringworm. We saw the autopsy/mortuary room, laundry with big old mangles, a washer the size of an old furnace and so much more.

I am truly going to try and figure out how to upload photos that I took of this Ellis Island hospital tour given that some are quite good (not M Ross quality though) and this history of the Ellis Island immigrant experiences at the hospital is very relevant to genealogy and WikiTree. Please, any of you who plan a NYC trip, add the ‘hard hat’ tour!

One major highlight for me was going to The Neue Gallery (near the Guggenheim) founded by philanthropist Ronald Lauder (Estee’s son). Several years ago, a friend and I saw a wonderful film Woman in Gold with Helen Mirren (as Maria Altmann) and Ryan Reynolds (as Randol Schoenberg). It is based on the true story of Altmann, whose aunt, Estelle, posed for the Gustav Klimpt painting, which was taken by the Nazi’s during the Holocaust. Altman and her attorney, Randol Schoenberg, spent years retrieving five family paintings by Klimpt, including Woman in Gold. Bonny could care less about museums or art (sadly). I made her watch the movie before we left and she actually mentioned having an appreciation for the painting after having gotten its history. I was so excited to see the actual painting at long last that I nearly wept. It is truly beautiful. I was struck by ‘the golden mean’ designs featured throughout the dress! We see this design in early cave art, Celtic art, plants, sea shells, even the inside of our cochlea! This is something I missed looking in art books.

No genealogy Wiki-work given the travel to NYC; however, we gained so much history that it will likely show up in some form or another as I work on WikiTree profiles.

OK, my verbal virtual vacation is at an end. PIP, that you so much for being a wonderful Wiki-host again! I want to wish all my Wiki-Chatterers a wonderful last weekend of March 2022.

Answer 11 · 2022-03-25T18:51:28+0000

A great big "thanks" to you, Pip, for hosting our weekly Chat and 'hang out time' once again.

I'm still adding profiles of the folks in my French family line, and have even been transcribing some of the information from handwritten records from over 100 years ago. I've been using the book: "Genealogy of the Billerica, Massachusetts, French family from 1599 to 1944". Part I of the book was compiled by H. Martin Kellogg, of Sound Beach P.O., Greenwich, Conn., and published in 1884. He is my 1st cousin 5 times removed. Later, this book was copied and updated by Mrs. Bonnibel (French) Hodgkins in Surry, New Hampshire, and then published in 1915. She is my second great-grandaunt. Continuation of the book covers the years 1915 to 1958 and was updated by Beatrice Barnes Fisher of Grafton, Vermont. She is my first cousin, twice removed. My copy of the book contains many handwritten updates added by my grandmother, and by my Aunt Janice, my grandmother's daughter. This is a project that will take some time, as I am attempting to verify all of the information found in the book.

As far as reading goes, Pip, you may want to see if you can find a copy of "WARPATH; One Vietnam Veteran's Journey Through War, Disillusionment, Guilt, and Recovery" by A. J. Moore. He writes in vivid detail about his time as a helicopter pilot in the Vinh Long Province. From what I've read so far, I can now better understand the attitude of my late husband who was a Green Beret there at the same base and at the same time as Moore.

The week ahead will be busy filling out various government forms and doing more research towards getting me into senior housing. I currently live with my daughter and her family and it is getting increasingly difficult to feel safe here. Just my osteoporosis alone makes me very fearful of walking around, trying to avoid the two dogs, and my oxygen tubing is always getting hung up on something. *sigh* I'll miss the day-to-day dealings with my granddaughters, but I'd rather feel safe, ya know?

That's about it unless something creates a spark in me that I just have to write about. My prayers continue to be for those brave souls in Ukraine. They inspire me.

Answer 12 · 2022-03-25T19:32:55+0000

Good evening from sunny and warm Germany,

(warm at least where I am. On the coast it is still cooler). On the other hand, it's far too dry. We hardly had any rain this month, the earth would need more water.

Covid-wise, we break records of new infections every single day. The incidence for the whole of Germany is over 1900 per 100,000 inhabitants. In my county we are at 1700. YAY, we are below average! #IronyOff

Ukraine: About a quarter million of Ukrainians were registered in the meanwhile in Germany. That way they are eligible for social welfare and the kids to go into kindergarten or school. Yeah, many Ukrainian children are already going to school in Germany.

Personally, we cleaned the flat a bit. Then we finally got the info where to donate money to to support our neighbor doctor, who sends trucks with medical stuff to the Ukraine nearly around the clock. And one of the concerts my non-vaxxed relative has tickets for is (at least to date) planned to be in mid April. Well, he bought the tickets, they were sent to us. So when he comes to Germany, we will meet somewhere and I will give him all his tickets. No, we don't let him sleep here.

WikiTree: Great news, the Tree cracked the 30m profiles. I registered for the Thon, although I won't have much time on Sunday morning, because it is Orthodox Easter, and mum plans to have a big lunch that day at least for us and my social mum. Yeah it's only three of us, but knowing mum, she will cook again for a whole company. She and my uncle clearly have the same genes...

Once when mum just arrived in Serbia she went to her brother: "Hey, what you wanna eat? I have (meal 1, meal 2, meal 3, meal 4, meal 5 and meal 6)." All stuff mum loves but cannot get in Germany. She only asked him if he wants to cram her.

Beside that, I'm cleaning my watchlist slowly but surely after exploiting the sources I have and I finished intentional sourcing for this month.

Have a great weekend and stay safe!

Answer 13 · 2022-03-25T19:42:11+0000

Happy weekend, everyone! Not much going on here this week; same old same old. My teen had their first driving lesson today. My students talked me into delaying next week's exam slightly, since they have two other major exams the same day. Gives me more time to write it. Cats all had checkups; all's well but we're switching to a different kind of insulin for the diabetic cat to see if it stops his glucose from bouncing all over the place.

Genealogy: bits and pieces. Another Wikitreer did some very nice work on one of my distant branches, so that was cool. And I finally decided on a desktop software package to use (Family Tree Maker 2019), so I'm working on that now. I'm discovering all sorts of stuff from my Ancestry import that needs cleaning up, and I figured out how to make some custom facts to mimic some of WikiTree's DNA functions. Should keep me busy for a while.

Weekend plans: the usual. House decluttering and cleaning, genealogy, and maybe a movie night. Oh, and write that exam.

answered Mar 25, 2022 by Lisa Hazard G2G6 Pilot (265k points)

Susan, the diabetic cat keeps me up late... sleep is a distant memory at this point. (I do get to sleep in tomorrow, though.) Meals, definitely! Carryout Japanese for dinner tonight, and I'm all full of salmon teriyaki now.

Anon, I teach college biology. Evolution this semester, and sometimes also comparative physiology, herpetology, and freshman bio, among other things.

I'm spending a lot of time getting my research onto WikiTree and my Ancestry tree as I go, but decided I also want my own locally based tree. Any online tree could run into problems (lose access, company goes under, whatever), so I want this as a fallback and a place for my more speculative stuff. There are several good programs out there, but only two Mac programs can sync with Ancestry trees, so I just looked at those. Honestly I'm back to trying out RootsMagic this evening. It has some features that FTM lacks, and vice versa. I think I really need to work with both of them some more before making a final decision.

commented Mar 26, 2022 by Lisa Hazard G2G6 Pilot (265k points)

Ah, Lisa, I do all my work on line. I utilize WT dot com and familysearch dot org; I utilize Google extensively -- I have no software on my chrome notebook (because it's borrowed)

Some few years ago I found out the words:

Wetware Wetware is a term drawn from the computer-related idea of hardware or software, but applied to biological life forms.

software; programs that make it possible for us to collect, interpret and act upon data.

hardware new tools (drones, 3D printing, internet of things, renewables, electric cars) that are giving us increasing control over our physical environment.

I'm an end user, I think that's the term. I utilize the hardware, software with my wetware woohoo

commented Mar 26, 2022 by Susan Smith G2G6 Pilot (663k points)

Answer 14 · 2022-03-25T19:43:48+0000

Thank you for being host-ful, Pip
We have blue skies a temp of around 71F and a bit of breeze that's gusty at 6 mph and no promise, hint or any other signs of rainfall not even dribbles

April 17th is Easter Sunday - Lent started Mar 2nd, think Margaret told us about that and ends 14th April

Doing all the usual (mine) at WT and at home

The season for the Thons is upon us and we can expect Pip to disappear at least 3x maybe 4x tween now and October - I always have felt like an abandoned child when he goes Thoning ..

I'm at 1,655 Contributions and counting. Ran into more than two bollocked profiles and some others that no matter how I approached, nothing turned up ... begin to wonder if I am hexed. Considering some of my own blunders I should not be vexed. I am vexed, anyway.

Still awaiting the delivery of the kittens by Sig O's cat (Little One) sweet natured black cat black eyes ... only parts not black that you can see are teeth and tongue, the mouth as a whole

Still bummed out by the invasion of Ukraine. I see the leader of N. Korea is jealous of the atten paid to Ukraine and is firing off videos and missiles both

Food today delivered without any questions about whether it would be, showed up by 11 AM ... relief felt all around ...

Tuesday was trash day and that was a war between truck and carts ... slam bang boom crash wham wham ... but any company will have to get the last dollar's worth out of equipment and very few of them will provide all this entertaining anticipation of a vehicular disassembling in a narrow subdivision street ... hehehe .. It's something to look forward to even if it never happens

Thing is it could happen -- just for instance -- there was this time a former spouse and I took the ferry, the Staten Island Ferry and when we boarded I asked the captain, jokingly, has the ferry every crashed, and got a long denial and a lot of indignations ... damn ferry took out the whole dock "on the other side" of the journey, I kid you not ... man, it rained splinters for 20 minutes ... someone had to go find some planks so we could debark -- you know that v-finger and spit to fend off witches? I got that from a crew man while debarking ..

Buses lose their transmission or rear end housing, ferries destroy a dock, trains derail, long distance bus drivers get lost, ... been there, done that ...

I really appreciate "boredom"

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