I tried the social security database but had limited success--doesn't help that she had an extremely common name. Apparently there was another woman of the same name (after marriage--who knows her maiden) born the same day and year, also in Chicago, who married a man with the same (even more common) name as my grandfather. But who died like, four years after my grandmother.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - Jan 25, 2016 5:27:22 pm PST #14180 of 30003
shrift - Jan 25, 2016 5:54:24 pm PST #14181 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I thought my desktop computer was dead, but tonight I managed to boot it and perform a system repair. Now I'm running diagnostics and backing up shit.
Connie Neil - Jan 25, 2016 6:11:57 pm PST #14182 of 30003
brillig
In pretty minor but cool to me cooking adventures, I have created a nice little ham and cheese "puff". I had some wonton wrappers in the fridge from an experiment with baked Crab Rangoon (failures are educational), and they were just drying out and more than half the package was left. So I cogitated a bit, bought some ham, cubed it up, stuck wonton wrappers in the cups of my mini muffin pan, put a few cubes of ham in each, dropped a bit of shredded cheese in, then popped in the oven for ten minutes. I think I'll add a bit of green onion to each one next time. Nowhere near haute cuisine, but it pleases me to engineer out something edible from my own head.
Burrell - Jan 25, 2016 6:52:03 pm PST #14183 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Yikes shrift, that's happened to me before. I'm glad you got it reboot.
-t - Jan 25, 2016 7:10:08 pm PST #14184 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Good one, Connie.
shrift - Jan 25, 2016 8:04:38 pm PST #14185 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Thanks, Burrell. I had a total crash less than a year ago, and it was such a huge PITA that I'd like not to go through it again for a little while.
Scrappy - Jan 25, 2016 8:58:46 pm PST #14186 of 30003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
That sounds delicious, Connie!
Zenkitty - Jan 26, 2016 12:43:57 am PST #14187 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Yeah, I think I was able to find my grandparents easily because their names were unique. Trying to find my "father", who may not even be dead yet, is more difficult. I just keep checking every few years.
Dana - Jan 26, 2016 2:30:32 am PST #14188 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
6:30AM call. I hate the world.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 26, 2016 2:40:41 am PST #14189 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
My grandfathers father is John Taylor. I can't follow that line at all. I was able to find the man I think was my father, but it was complete luck. I was looking through a directory, and found him as the head contact for the business my mother worked for, and it matched the name she gave me. She told me he died before I was born, but his death date actually lined up with the time when I was in second grade when she sat me down to tell me about him and I flipped out like a mammal. She got mad and told me that she would never tell me anything about him again, and she never did! I flipped out again surrounding the FAFSA, and that's when she told me he was dead.