Below are the most recent 4 friends' journal entries.

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
zundevil	2:41p	Notes from My First Ever Visit to NYC (2008) Happy 11th anniversary of moving to NM, me! Speaking of traveling...in between the 2008 TRASHionals and the World Sudoku Championship 3 (in India) I finally made it to the Big Apple for some sight-seeing and family and friend time.  Things were so quaint back then that I'd even immediately head to my unread(able?) LJ and write way too much about it.  As I recall, I had started recapping things when it came time to head to the airport for my 17-hour flight to Bombay, so I copied everything into a text file and made a mental note to finish up when I got to India. Which...didn't happen. Anyhow, five years on, and with minimal motivation to finish my thoughts -- and even less ability to do so! -- here's the gist of the NYC trip.  I'm leaving it almost entirely as it was written back then.  Enjoy? ( Five years ago...Collapse ) (And that's all from back then.  Would I have followed it up with a reference to that creepy Just for Men commercial where two 6-8yo girls try to get their father some action?  I guess we'll never know.  But at least now I have something in common with Samuel T. Coleridge.  Minus the opium-induced hallucinations) Thanks for reading y'all. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
530nm330hz	9:18p	Genealogy: Another name change (ERLANGER) Just a quick note, because I need to document this. I've been looking into the ERLANGER family of Ichenhausen, and using the data from jgbs.org to reconstruct the tree. I had five men who looked (based on their dates of birth) like they should be brothers, but I couldn't find birth records for them. Finally I hit on the idea of just looking for people born at about the right time with the right set of first names. And sure enough, I found three records that had the right first name and birth year, all with the last name MEZGER [sic] and the parents Gerson and Sara. To cross-check, I found death records from Gerson and Sara Erlanger in 1847 and 1843, respectively. If I assume that sometime between 1820 and 1840 the family changed their name from Butcher to People-From-Erlangen, then I have a complete family picture. No one before 1840 used Erlanger, no one after 1820 used Mezger or Metzger, and I have a consistent set of names and dates across the boundary if I assume that single change. (I may yet find records from those two decades that helps me narrow it down further.) I consider that sufficient evidence to enter it with confidence into my database. (But I'm writing this quick note to document my process.) [Edited to add: There were a few siblings still missing, but when I searched Ichenhausen for anyone with the parents Gerson and Sara, I got the remaining siblings, with last names like MOSES and MAYYER, which are clearly errors for MEZGER. I consider that final confirmation that my hypothesis is correct. There's also another family, Gabriel and Esther METZGER, who at least didn't butcher the spelling of the name, but which I have no evidence is at all connected.] (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 17th, 2013
sueplusplus	8:21a	Aaron Fuegi is my Brad Pitt In her NY Times op ed piece this week, a brave and thoughtful Angelina Jolie wrote: "So to anyone who has a wife or girlfriend going through this, know that you are a very important part of the transition. " So true! Aaron has been an absolutely amazing partner through all of this. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, May 10th, 2013
thatwesguy	1:47a	Earworm, please Insomnia Police requires that you please name a highly favored pop song in order that I can cover it a cappella on my little iPad music multi-track doohingus because that is apparently the thing I do when I can't sleep.* PS Don't bother naming Mr. Roboto, as I've done that one already.** Love to LJ, Signed, Yours truly, W *Apologies, Upstairs Neighbor, if you can hear me singing quietly. **I didn't say it has to be objectively good. It just has to be something you like. Because then I might like it. And if I like it, then I'm hitting the Big Red Record Button on it, see if I don't, yar. (10 Comments |Comment on this)