Cash, Amy et al-- It is addictive. Also, once you get far enough back, if the trail isn't dead, it is easier to research. My great grandfather was also named "John Taylor" so there is a lot of them to sort through. I think I might have messed up 2 different people, or someone did on the records.

Unfortuneately, the period that interests me the most (1940's) doesn't have census records on-line until 2012. And women are much harder to trace because of the maiden name things (although there are a lot of shared names in the family).

It is really fascinating, especially since my family was very secretive, and everyone who knows anything, even about my grandparents, has died. I was hoping I could get in touch somehow with my Great Aunt Babe's kids and grandkids, but they don't give out the names of the living.

Need to consider a rainbarrell.

This may not be such an issue in non-desert areas, but one of the big car dealerships wanted to put in a rain reclamation system on their new building, and the state told them they were stealing the water that belonged to the government. Turns out the water rights to rain falling on private property do not automatically go to the property owners, under very old laws of Utah. Everyone with rain barrels was technically committing a felony. Not sure how/if that has been resolved.

There is a *slight* argument that if everyone collected the rain that fell on their roofs that it would reduce the amount of water going downstream, but even the environmentalists were of the opinion that what fell on streets and parking lots was sufficient for that purpose, and that it would all flow downstream eventually, especially the rain barrel water that was going to used for watering lawns and gardens.

and the state told them they were stealing the water that belonged to the government. Turns out the water rights to rain falling on private property do not automatically go to the property owners, under very old laws of Utah.

True in, at least some places, California too. Water is srs bsns in deserts.

Dole markets an orange-peach-mango juice that eases a lot of the OJ acid for me

I find mango is a very good buffer, but much with the sweet. Def needs dilution.

Oy, with the politicking sara. I hope to avoid a lot of that at my place. The structure seems very simple. Or I could be being wilfully naive.

I just stopped working.

Not because I was done, but because the database I was using decided it was done for the day.

That's too late to be working, Perkins.

At least I'm in inside pants and watching tv at the same time?

Grace's giggling? Best. Thing. Ever.

really

I worked late tonight too, but mostly because I took an unexpected nap this afternoon. But then I watched my tivo`d SYTYCD, so not as late as you.
 
Water rights are huge issues here too of course, but you can take my rain barrels out of my cold dehydrated hands.

I went out after all. Saw a tweet from a web series producer I know asking if anyone wanted to join them so I went out. Had a very pleasant time talking to them and wasn't all self-conscious and feeling inferior as I often can be in crowds/parties. Phew. Nice to use the car to its fullest.

If you can read office politics, sarameg, I admire you even more than I already do. That is an arcane field of necromancy I have never been able to pierce.