I am hoping that Drumpf hasn’t been able to stop today being MLK day. You know that he and his creepy administration would love to get rid of that. It would probably take an act of congress, though.
One thing that I spent some time on yesterday was geneology. YouTube had a piece about free Geneology tools on the internet. The first one seems a lot like Ancestry.com. But free. I like free. Sadly, a lot of the people are not in their shared database. I guess no one wants to know those ancestors. But I hope to rectify those deficiencies at some point. I don’t know how, but I will spend some time on it on the road. I am sure I will have some down time. It looks like my branch of the Alexanders did not do well. I am still hoping for some long lost cousins on that side of the family…
I got up early than is my wont this morning to give SM a ride to the airport. This is a quick trip for her. I’ll be picking her up again on Wednesday. I just drove there and back. And didn’t go back to sleep. Though I did take a nap after lunch.
I continue to plod (skip?) along getting little things accomplished. And planning (hoping) that I will get the bigger things accomplished too. Anything is possible (most things are unlikely). I did a good bit of scanning. Mostly pictures of mom from China. I am not scanning a lot of the pictures she took of places and people I don’t know. This project really is primarily about scanning in pictures of people in the Schoen-Rene sphere.
Augustus for President: Today I started looking at coasters. Another design is called for. And they don’t come quickly unless you pay a lot. It looked, from one of the websites, that I have a few days in which to get them designed if I want them to get here before I leave. As I mentioned yesterday, I think I am going to just make 200 each of new stickers, some pens and some coasters. Though if the pens don’t happen for the 50+1 Capitals Tour, I won’t be horribly upset.
I also did more work on the document about the tour. Filling in some basic information about each state. I think I have maybe 10 completed. Only 40 more to go.
One of the many things that isn’t getting done is the press release for the tour. Do I really think that any media organization will be interested in speaking with me? Yes, I do. Certainly not MSNow or whatever it is called. But maybe a college radio station in Oregon might be interested.
Every Lira Counts: $10 can buy maybe 20 coasters (or something like that – the prices for these things run the gamut from $.01 per piece to $$ per piece). I do need a designer at some point…Hmm, maybe that is something to think about as well…
Still Life 