This is my first dual genealogy journal post since - for the first time in a long time - this was mostly a non-genealogy weekend. Imagine that.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
- Worked on the basics this morning including the weekly New Genealogy Blogs post. My favorite new genealogy blog name: Kickass Genealogy. LOL.
- Also pre-posted at GeneaBloggers for the rest of the week - these are all the Daily Blogging Theme posts the readers look forward to each day.
- Off to play Escape from Costco Island. Almost won - out in 15 minutes but unfortunately the damage was over $100. Must work on that but with the impending holidays it will be difficult. Bought the boneless leg of lamb and got it set in the marinade for tomorrow night.
- Wrote my review of Michael John Neill's Casefile Clues newsletter at GB. Let's just say that I was and still am very impressed! I love the way he deconstructs genealogy cases and the puts all the pieces back together. Very helpful!
- Worked on my Saturday Night Genealogy Fun post on Surname Distributions and also created the roll-up post over at GB.
- After dinner finished the movie The Best Years of Our Lives - what a great way to get ready for Veterans Day!
- Not much genealogy. Once I was awake, I did go through my usual routines of checking emails, reading blog posts etc. There were lots of participants in Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun so I had posts to tag.
- Also I remembered to turn the boneless leg of lamb which has been marinading in the ice box since Saturday morning.
- After that, believe it or not, I had a totally non-genealogy, non-computer and non-Internet day!
- Stopped in at Home Depot to pick up supplies to transfer houseplants. Since it was 71F degrees out in Chicago (in November? really?) I wanted to work out on the deck and transfer plants that were root bound as well as purchase new plants to nuture during the winter months.
- Got dinner going about 4:30 pm: roasted vegetables (onions, mushrooms, peppers and tomatoes with some of the lamb marinade) in the oven, made saffron rice pilaf and fired up the grill. While the weather was great, I am not a big fan of grilling in the dark which I had to do now with the time change. The lamb was wonderful!.
- Watched the latest Family Guy nonsense on Fox - I just don't know how they get away with some of the stuff on that show! Then watched a great piece in the American Masters series called Hollywood Chinese which traced the depiction of Chinese-Americans in movies - very interesting.
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