Daily post

Sleep: 6pm to 4am

Weather: Clear, 73F, 78% humidity, high 75F

Daily BPAL: THE CHURCHYARD
Description: Overgrown dark green bullrush, midnight roses, dwarf St. John's Wort, frankincense, blackberry leaf, and moss-covered, half-buried tree bark.
In bottle: Woodsy herbs and an afterscent of roses.
On me: same as above, only stronger. Nice.

Daily Tarot: 7 of Pentacles: Pause during the development of an enterprise. Unprofitable speculations. Loss of promising fortune. Disappointment. Anxiety about a loan. Success not attained.

MyMiniCity: Increase Population
Increase Transportation
Increase Industry
Increase Security

Reading:
Myths of the Norsemen: from the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. Guerber
Letters by Cicero
Th1rte3n by Richard K. Morgan
Kate Crackernuts by Katherine M. Briggs
Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in its Disaster Zone by Joshua Clark
The Sandman, Vol 10: The Wake by Neil Gaiman
This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn by Aidan Chambers

Fun with Ancestry again

So yesterday and today, suffering from a general inability to get any real work done, I've been ferreting out more of my family tree. Rutherford B. Hayes and Sigourney Weaver are now on my tree, as a 7th cousin 5 times removed and an 11th cousin once removed, respectively. I can also claim George W. Bush as a relative through marriage, but I won't. Rutherford and Sigourney now join Lady Godiva and half the royal families of Europe as the famous people I'm related to. Sadly, they are both once again on my biological father's side. My stepfather has famous relatives of his own. My poor mother, on the other hand, is not related to anyone famous that I can find. I think she feels slighted.

Names

As I go through the old censuses and other records, I am struck by how, at least in the English-speaking world, there seem to be so few names that are really used prior to about 1850 or so. So I thought I'd start a list. Suggestions welcome. I'm really thinking there are perhaps only about 20 or so for each gender.


Male:
Alexander
Anthony
Benjamin
Charles
Christopher
Edward
Francis
George
James
John
Joseph
Michael
Nathaniel
Richard
Robert
Thomas
William


Female:
Agnes
Abigail
Ann/Anne
Catherine/Katherine (and variants)
Dorothy
Elizabeth (and variants)
Frances
Hannah
Jane/Janet (and variations)
Joan (Joanne, Joanna)
Louisa
Lucy
Margaret/Margery (and variations)
Martha
Mary
Sarah

Twittering

• 08:48 Of *course* it would be in South Carolina: tinyurl.com/6dgmdd #
• 11:53 Sigourney Weaver is my 11th cousin once removed. #
• 11:54 Rutherford B. Hayes is my 7th cousin 5 times removed. #
• 12:48 My 3rd and 4th seasons of Due South arrived yesterday! Tonight I start introducing Isaac to the series :) #
• 12:59 Genealogy research is work-related, right? #
• 13:57 The wireless network at work keeps going down, it's very annoying. #

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