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I just wanted to point these out, because after many days the comments and discussion are apperantly still going strong.
Rebecca made one innocent comment about starting to send Gideon to day care part time, and then all hell seemed to break loose in the comment threads on her blog. See these posts and the comments on them:
OK Blogger is Really Pissing Me Off
Legitimate Mothering (or Vote for Reb)
I’m Putting Harrlynn’s Comment Top Level
I checked last night, then just checked again a few minutes ago and there are many new comments. I’ll go read them all shortly, but I’ve just been called to lunch.
Listening to the radio coming into work this morning about President Bush’s surprise trip to Bagdad, and there is one thing I wanted to comment on that I didn’t hear people explicitly commenting on. (I haven’t checked the blogosphere yet for this sort of thing, just noticing the people on the radio didn’t comment on this.)
On all other VIP trips to Iraq that I can remember… Tony Blair, George W Bush, even cabinet members and such, the news has been embargoed until the VIP has LEFT and is now back out of Iraqi airspace.
This time the news embargo was lifted while the President was still on the ground and was planning to stay on the ground for several more hours.
Now, unless this turns out to be disinformation and he has actually already left, that means that they are now feeling confident enough that they can essentially give any insurgents who are interested a several hour head start saying “if you want to make a spectacular attack, now would be the time” and still feel confident they can defend against any possible attacks.
They aren’t quite ready to announce such trips BEFORE they happen. But even that they let the news get out while it is still happening is still a very significant change.
This weekend we set the plans for the final move from Florida to Washington. On 9 Jul I’ll fly back to Florida. From 10 Jul to 14 Jul the moving company will pack and load. From 15 Jul to 21 Jul Brandy, Amy, Zuri, Cheese, Skittles, Mike, several fish and I will pack into a car and drive cross country to my apartment here. Our planned route is above courtesy of Google Maps.
We had thought about flying back, but in the end for a variety of reasons decided that driving would be the way to go. This will give me four more states on my State Map. Woo! Um, that wasn’t one of the reasons though. :-)
In any case, should be an interesting trip.
And it will let me visit my house one more time before it isn’t my house any more.
 Time for my father’s father’s father. I have very little biographical information about him at the moment. I know he was born in South Carolina and went to Davidson College there. I know who he married and I know her had four kids (the last of whom was my Grandfather). I have a few pictures and know a few dates. But that is about it. I hope at some point I’ll be able to get more information, but I don’t have it at the moment.
As I get deeper this of course becomes very common. There are many many of these ancestors for whom all that is really there is date of birth, date of death, and names of spouses and children. Some of them I might be able to find out more about with some more real world research (not just sitting here at my computer doing searches). But for many, that’s just all the information that is left. Meanwhile these are all people who lived full lives, had many adventures, successes, failures, loves and losses… but all that is remembered is a few dates.
And then of course, there are some places where I can’t find names of parents of some ancestor at all, and then those parents, whoever they were, for them nothing at all is left in terms of knowledge of them. Kinda sad when you think about it.
I think though I probably WILL be able to get more information about William Ramseur. He is recent enough I’m sure there’s gotta be more I can dig up. But we shall see. And for now, I have what I have.
As usual, click the picture for more.
 25% chance of Tropical Storm force winds in Melbourne within the next 120 hours (5 days).
I would say “Woo” again, but Brandy chastised me for that last time and said I only said that cause I am 3217 miles away (by road). And that is partially true, but I’d be saying Woo if I was there too.
I mean, A Cat 5 hurricane bearing down on you is kinda scary, but the last Tropical Storm was actually rather fun…
Nine days into the season and we have the first activity in the Atlantic Basin on the NHC warning chart. Woo!
I have now completed posting Generation 2 on this blog. So time to see “where Sam is from” if you consider where ancestors at different generations were born. If you remember the more recent generations:
Generation 0:
100% Wisconsin
Generation 1:
50% District of Columbia
50% Ohio
And now…
Generation 2:
25% North Carolina
25% Kentucky
25% Arkansas
25% Vermont
The center of mass here is definitely moving South… Hmmm… I should put some of this on a map… in my head I see charts and animations… Hmmm… OK, this is probably my cue to shut down and go to bed. Cause if I start thinking that way, I could be up for many hours making maps. And that would probably be bad.
 The for another ancestor. This time my mother’s mother, Marion Vera Hurlburt. She was born in Mendon, Vermont and died just a few months short of 100 years later in Southampton, Massachusetts.
In the intervening place she did a lot and lived in many places. At least eight states and two countries. High School in Maine. College in Ohio. Nursing School in Rhode Island. Followed her husband’s ministries in Maine and Ohio before he died young leaving her a single mother with two children and pregnant with a third (my mother). Then a full career as a nurse in various locations in Vermont, including 16 years as the nurse in residence for a residential school for children in need.
Then as soon as the last of her children (my mother) graduated college, she left the country to be a missionary nurse in Turkey for five years in her 60’s. Finally she retired to Massachusetts in 1973. And of course it is there that I visited her many times as a child, through to the last years of her life a few years back.
For more information, click on the picture.
I made an off hand mention of this in an email to my friend Ron. He asked for a link, and I realized I should just blog it.
Is It Raining Aliens?
As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis’s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens. In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples—water taken from the mysterious blood-colored showers that fell sporadically across Louis’s home state of Kerala in the summer of 2001—contain microbes from outer space.
 I promised Matt that next time he sent a picture I would post it. His daughter Lily is 8 weeks old now and he just sent me a new picture. And he gave permission in advance, so…
Here she is.
The picture is from May though, so she wasn’t 8 weeks old there. But she is now. You know what I mean. Very confusing. In any case, a cute baby girl who is doing great.
She is looking very pink in that picture. :-)
In any case, congratulations again Matt!
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