Now here is a real treat for those of you out there.
This is a search engine for black sheep ancestors. You can go to the state you want and enter someones name. Since I am in PA I went to the PA site and got a list of everyone in PA who had been executed up until the date of 1962.
Who knows, maybe you can find that Uncle that no one would talk about...
Those three females are my sisters and I. This was taken circa 1976. Claudia is in the middle. I haven't got a clue how the flowers got in there. I have moved all my pictures from the stick to the new computer. I still have to move my music. I read today that some ass hole lawyer decided that it was illegal and an infringement of the copy right laws for a person to copy the music that they had purchased A cd and move it to an MP 3 file of your own. I think Shakespeare was right when he said to kill all the lawyers........................
PERSONALLY I FEEL THAT IF I PAID FOR THE DAMN CD I CAN COPY IT IF I AM NOT SELLING IT.........FOR POSTING IT ON A FILE SHARING WEBSITE.
I wonder how those size numbers are determined. It says 14, exactly what does 14 mean???? We went to a movie today Atonement; staring Kiera Knightly and James McAvery. This was a retro film whose consequences stretched to the present time. It was set circa 1935-1940.
A lie was told and the ramifications altered many lives.....I would recommend it. I wonder what will be the next film to be seen???
I have often wondered what those random buttons were for. Well. down at the bottom is a little button that if you click it will highlight the whole page and you can copy it and paste.
This is from the Refdesk, which is one of my favorite links. It think this is because I LOVE TRIVIA. My da ughter and I play Bar Trivia and it starts again next week.
We have sooooo much fun and I suffer from Trivia withdrawl when the session is on hiatus.
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THOUGHT-OF-THE-DAY ARCHIVES
DECEMBER 1999
| DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY (Feature began Dec. 6, 1999) |
| 12/06/99 | "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw |
| 12/07/99 | "The greatest thing in life is love and the second is laughter." - G.Y. Morgan |
| 12/08/99 | "You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself." - Ethel Barrymore |
| 12/09/99 | "Never flinch, never weary, never despair." - Winston Churchill |
| 12/10/99 | "The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| 12/11/99 | "Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway |
| 12/12/99 | "Those who trim themselves to suit everybody will soon whittle themselves away." - Charles M. Schwab |
| 12/13/99 | "What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other." - George Eliot |
| 12/14/99 | "It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it." - J. Bronowski |
| 12/15/99 | "Go ahead and do it, it is easier to apologize than to get permission." - Admiral Grace Hopper |
| 12/16/99 | "Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world." - Publilius Syrus |
| 12/17/99 | "The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten." - Andre Mairaux |
| 12/18/99 | "We don't know who we are until we see what we can do." - Martha Grimes |
| 12/19/99 | "Anything you're good at contributes to happiness." - Betrand Russell |
| 12/20/99 | "Make the best of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens." - Epictetus |
| 12/21/99 | "Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?" - Coleman Cox |
| 12/22/99 | "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightening that does the work." - Mark Twain |
| 12/23/99 | "Action is eloquence." - Shakespeare |
| 12/24/99 | "The season always gives me the blues in spite of myself, though I manage to get a good deal of pleasure from thinking of the multitudes of happy kids in various parts of the world." - Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| 12/25/99 | "Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind." - Mary Ellen Chase |
| 12/26/99 | "Less advice and more hands." - German Proverb |
| 12/27/99 | "Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning." - Hesiod |
| 12/28/99 | "I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates." - T.S. Eliot |
| 12/29/99 | "It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home." - Thornton Wilder |
| 12/30/99 | "In Germany, the Nazis came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I'm not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up beacuse I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I was a Protestant so I didn't speak up. Then they came for me. By that time there was no one to speak up for anyone." - Martin Niemoller |
| 12/31/99 | "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it ... This is the condition of children and barbarians, in whom instinct has learned nothing from experience." - George Santayana |
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Popular New Year's Resolutions on USA.gov Click on link to the left...
How much (OF OUR--WE THE PEOPLE) money do you think that the Federal Government spent on how to make New Years resolutions?????
With our national debt in the TRILLIONS I am will to bet that Billions more are spent on stupid things that are useless to the majority of the population. This is right up there with the study of the sex life of frogs.......I think they should do a study on stupid spending and pork barrel spending.......
The thing that irked me the most was the section on how to get federal aid for foreign students. This is on the section entitled GET A BETTER EDUCATION LINK.
Because my husband and I both work there is NO FEDERAL AID FOR OUR CHILD. And most of the population that is working in this country.........But we can give it to non nationals, non citizens.
WHAT A FREAKING COUNTRY.
Just when I settled myself to do nothing we got a call that there was an appendectomy to be done. He was a nice man, sort of had this vague abdominal pain but it was a hot appendix.
He came to the ER at 2 PM and we were getting started at 9 PM. I can't believe it took them so long to diagnose and get him ready to do the surgery. It had already ruptured, who know, maybe during the ER wait. The case was really uneventful. I told him he had a good chance of being in the OR till next year. LOL It hurt when he laughed.
I want to get the decorations in the attic. Emily's allergies seemed to be gone. The culprit was the tree. Glad we are getting back to normal with that.
This evening I am cooking the traditional New Years dinner. My mother cooked a pork roast and threw it in the sauerkraut. There was no gravy with the mashed potatoes. Well, I cook the sauerkraut separately and I have gravy for my mashed potatoes. The sauerkraut is drained, add a couple tablespoons of brown sugar; add a few pearl onions, a sliced red apple and some raisins and bake it for 30 minutes at 350. I use the sauerkraut that comes in a plastic bag and is found in the meat section. Emily will eat fish.
The tradition is to eat pork ( because the pig roots forward) and not to have chicken (because the chicken scratches back) Sauerkraut is to insure good luck thru out the next year. I really don't like sauerkraut but I hate to take the chance......................................................
