…for at least a couple of days.
\nMaking progress on the outline, the pond is waking up, the trees are trying to bloom, and I finally got the right genealogy file to load. After all the madness I’m taking time for that hobby, during the evenings while watching telly. I was afraid I’d lost it. But in with some of mom’s things I was able to trace her mother’s immediate family, which opened up a whole bunch of traceable lines where I didn’t have any. So I’m chasing those down. Also it’s been so long since I’ve done any work on it that ‘new’ people have popped up in the database—research by people like me all over the world is continually adding bits. They’re not always right, but you can crosscheck by doing the math on birthdays and such, and occasionally by checking Wikipedia, if they’re notorious enough. Wiki can sometimes be relied on more than a genealogical record that has 9 different birthdays and thinks a mediaeval Frenchman was born in New Jersey. Ain’t interactive data-entry fun, when you don’t watch which ‘suggestion’ you’ve just clicked on?<\/p>\n
Anyway, the front end of a book has more spare time about it than the back end: there’s only so much outlining you can do at one sitting, before your brain turns to custard and you start thinking in circles. <\/p>\n
But I have 3\/4 of the outline done. Should be a fun book. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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