Dan and Brian told me last night they were frustrated Sunday morning when their smart clocks, or atomic clocks reset themselves for daylight savings time.
That would be a great feature (our GPS unit did the same) if daylight savings time would have been last week. The downside is, that thanks to Congress, daylight savings time didn’t take place last week.
NPR has the scoop – well some of it at least.
Category: Life hacks
Get your money back
From NPR….
When the housing market sags, some sellers drop their asking price. A Pittsburgh-area couple has hit upon a new twist. After trying to sell for almost a year, Bob and Ricki Husick are making this offer: buy their house now for $399,000 and get your money back when they die. That could be a long wait, as they’re only in their 50s. Still, they’ve already received four offers.
Random news
a. We bought a new truck last night
b. I love it, but I think Laurie may be more excited than I am – I think she may try and sneak off with it one day before work and leave me the Xterra
c. Our Community group is finishing up Colossians this week (hopefully)
d. We’re going to start on Mark Batterson’s series Chase the Lion next week
e. I’ve done some real searching today on my family history.
f. Found some confusing information and it turns out, as I suspected, two Strother sisters, married two Gaines brothers
g. Once that was confirmed, everything else started making sense again.
h. While I’m not completely sure on one or two generations, it would appear that one relative on my mom’s side signed the American Declaration of Independence, and another signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. Crazy!
i. It may be crazier to think that they were only a generation or two apart.
j. In the meantime, I posted a challenge on our Wiki page – but unless you’re still reading this, I doubt you care anything about my family’s history. But if you do, feel free to join in – or start your own Wiki for your family tree. Maybe we’ll find they connect somewhere in the not to recent past.
Are politicians cut from the same cloth?
From NPR:
Sen. Barack Obama and Vice President Dick Cheney are distant cousins. President Bush and Sen. John Kerry have dozens of shared relatives. Megan Smolenyak, chief family historian at ancestry.com, talks to Alex Cohen about tracing back the family tree.
Looks like Walt Disney is also George Bush’s 13th cousin, once removed… interesting.
Better get back to work on my family tree.
The Wiki Tree
I don’t know how many of you looked at our new Wikipedia site yesterday… I haven’t worried with stats since I’m visiting it a lot and making additions, changes and such but I’ve run into a dilemma. I’m trying to map out our family tree (The Blundell/Scherbarth portion of it for now) and I’m not sure of the layout.
The way it is now (as of this posting) made sense to begin with, but it might be a bit more confusing now. As it is I show up under Heading 1 and 2. But maybe that’s how it should be. Feel free to add your thoughts by clicking on the discussion page, or leaving your comments here.