Gang Aft Agley

The little two managed to pull it off. Enough energy expended on wishing and they got a 2 hour weather delay for their first day back to school. With that magic phone call the whole house shuts down, the sandwiches are left as is on the kitchen counter and we all head back to our respective beds, for an extra bit of sleep.

The last thing I remember is hearing Obama surging in New Hampshire before Kiaya came running in shouting out the time. Quickly the house roused itself again, clothes came off the floor and back onto bodies, sandwiches were finished and packed away, the coffee pot sprung to life.

Keigan completed his project today, and now we wait for the call from the printers to go pick it up.

A combination of events in the last few weeks has brought the family tree back into focus here. First a school assignment to produce a family tree, in Keigan’s case dating back to 1778. Secondly a moldy closet, and last the launch of Geni.

School assignment is actually to interview a relative, and or produce a family tree showing a connection to some event. Keigan choose to talk about the Cherry Valley Massacre and highlight his family connection to the Clyde family.

All of the notes I have on the family history are stored in the front closet. With the recent cold spell, we noticed a growth of mold on the inner walls. I suspect lack of proper insulation, as well as no air flow, as the culprit. We have now gone through the entire stash of crap, and reorganized it. Getting rid of numerous items in the process.

everyone’s related is the subtitle to Geni, a flash based interface to creating your family tree. It is definitely aimed for casual users, as most of its features are about keeping track of your living family. In less than one evening of inputting data, I ran into some of its limitations. Though they promise to work on them in future releases. What stopped my work was the lack of support for intermarriages within branches of a family, as you go far enough back, this becomes critical.

Does this sound familiar? Cursive is Dying

The kids got their wish, and the schools were closed for the day with a snow day. If the rest of the country used the definition they have here for a snow day, we would never have gone to school in the winter time.

I bicyled into work as usual. The streets were clear, without the assistance of plows. Sometime around 11 the snow was completely cleared from the grass as well. Minus one or two pockets hidden in the shade that were stubbornly persisting.

An hour and a half ago saw a fresh layer of snow, though it too has cleared up at this point. Whats a snow day without the snow. Perhaps we should institute rain days, as the streets are worse in a torrential downpour than they were this morning.