Author: John
Ancestry Update
On account of striking up an email acquaintance with a new distant cousin across the pond, I got fired up to add letters from “Louie” Cook, written in 1900 and 1930, to the Ancestry section of the Chappell Family Website. Louie’s position in the genealogy picture had been less than clear, although the evidence was there had I examined it sufficiently. Having recently added the Genealogy Documents page, which I think makes a kinda cool presentation by use of javascript, I decided to employ the same method to showcase Louie’s letters. Well, it snowballed. Quite a few “letters from the past” are sprinkled throughout the ancestry pages of the site, mostly as “pdf” files. I thought presenting them in the same fashion as Louie’s letters would make them more accessible and readable. So, it became a project, culminating in the Letters From the Past page. There are more letters yet to include; but I need to take a rest from the project and deal with them later, like after I get a little caught up on my “day job” and get my taxes done.
Meanwhile, I think it’s much easier to enjoy the letters that are there, and see how they overlap with common references, yielding a more dynamic view of our “living” ancestors.
Jayhawks Rock
Naturally, I have to do an ode to the ‘Hawks, what with their winning the NCAA Basketball National Championship last night. This after the football team winning the Orange Bowl game in January. Sportswise, a good time to be a Jayhawk these days! As was the case Saturday night when they won the semi-final, there were lots of fireworks in the neighborhood and generally about town immediately after the win, and downtown Lawrence was a solid mass of humans acting out in various ways. The university canceled classes today, and downtown was relatively deserted. Seems a lot of people called in sick at numerous businesses, including the courthouse and county offices. Today’s weather was not especially cooperative, being rainy, but I kind of doubt it dampened things much up on “the hill”. I expect we’ll see a downtown parade before too long. Stephen and Kimberly probably remember the 1988 parade featuring Danny and the Miracles. I do. Yeah, this is pretty cool! We’ll be cheering for the Stanford women’s team tonight.
A Little Justice Made My Day
April 11, 2008
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John
Pulled into the parking garage by the office today figuring to park in one of my usual spots. Got there and found a VW parked smack on top of the line, taking out both my favorite spaces. So I parked down the line and planned to get on the YouParkLikeAnAsshole website soon as I got to the office, and and print out one of their YouParkLikeAnAsshole tickets. But, when I got out of the car, I noticed the meter maid marking tires. Thought I’d ask her if it was actually a ticketable offense to park like that. Well, I caught up to her right at the VW. She asked if it was my car. I told her, “no way” and asked if she was going to give it a ticket. “A $40 ticket”, she answered. “Cool,” I said, “I hate when people park like that.” She said, “Me, too.” I skipped the YouParkLikeAnAsshole ticket. The real thing was much more satisfying. Later, I realized I should’ve used my phone to get a picture for the YouParkLikeAnAsshole website; but, when I when back, it was gone.