I find it hard to believe that I have been in this apartment for over six years. The cats were born on 12th October 2011, an easy date to remember because it was my parents' wedding anniversary. I collected them on 2nd January 2012 when they were 10 weeks old.
Yesterday I met up with my two Wilson third cousins and we talked none-stop for four hours. It was a lot of fun - they are great people and both interested in our mutual roots. I have spent the last couple of weeks gleaning as much information as I could from all my Wilson cousins descended from Matthew Wilson, my paternal grandmother's family. To clarify that last sentence - I have some other Wilson cousins who, as far as I know are a different family altogether. I have not been able to get a complete descendant line - there are some gaps to fill in still and I am hopeful but not at all confident that I will get all the information I would like.
It is easy going back since there is a lot of information online from people researching their ancestors but not as easy to cover contemporary relatives. There is nothing in the archived newspapers and the BMD CDs only work with 32 bit computers and only go to about 1930 anyway. I used to have the whole set and squeezed them dry before disposing of them when I moved. I realise that they might still have worked on my Win 7 laptop but they didn't have the information I want anyway.
My latest COTA client has cancelled his last two lessons. I can't say that I blame him, the computers which we use are on their last legs and last week there was no internet connection. After two weeks of exhorting him to click on the Microsoft button to find out which version of windows he has it is quite possible that he discovered that he has a Apple Mac. Anyway, unless COTA manages to dredge up another client is looks as though I will be able to sleep in on Thursdays for the rest of the year. My plan is to go to the Christmas party and then resign - or resign and then go to the Christmas party.
We are having weird weather at the moment - hot days, cold winds, storms - totally unpredictable and my asthma is bad and I am currently taking cortisone which is great for my poor sore arthritic thumbs but extremely painful when I stop taking it so I should be taking advantage and getting back to spinning but I have spent a great deal of time trying to kill off two infants, Michael [--?--] and Daniel [--?--] children of a cousin with a nameless husband. Michael and Daniel were duplicated and even FTM should have realised that but didn't. so I deleted the repeats which returned with alarming regularity and eventually I had to kill off their mother and reinsert her. I haven't tried putting the boys back but maybe one day ...
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