I hate it when at the end of a full busy day, I can’t really remember what the day was full of and what I was busy with. I’m sure it was good stuff though.
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Thomas B VanTilburgh was born in 1847, died in 1910 and had 13 children along the way with his wife Margaret Weer. He appears to have lived in Western Ohio all of his life. He worked at a bakery, a warehouse and a brickyard at various times in his life. And along with his wife, he started a series of annual VanTilburgh Family Reunions starting in 1909. They have not missed a year since. The most recent was YESTERDAY. (Thus me being off by one day here.) I did not attend, but my mother did. It seems attendance has dropped a bit over the last few years. There were only 20 or so of Thomas B’s descendants there. They are hoping to make a bigger event in 2009 for the 100th anniversary of the first reunion. I hope they manage to do so. I also hope to go in 2009. It should be interesting. I went to one of these before when I was about 9 or 10 years old I think. But I think I’d get more out of it today than I did then. :-)
If the hurricanes are trying to follow us from Florida, they missed and headed a bit too far west. But good luck to Hawaii in any case. With luck it will pass harmlessly to the south.
With this one my main thought the whole times were along the lines “Why? Why did they make this?” and “Is it over yet?” interspersed with, “Oh my god, Hillary Duff looks awful, what is wrong with her?”. Sure, it had a couple cute moments. But they were not all that often and there were more parts that were just stupid. It did have a nice sentimental “Awww…” ending, but everybody knew that going in, right? And OK, this movie is clearly NOT aimed at me. But still… Cronus has been a little slow lately, and it hasn’t been a memory or CPU issue. But low and behold, I look and my 500GB hard drive (really 465GB, but that’s the whole thing about how hard drives are labeled and the difference between 1000 and 1024, but whatever…) Where was I? Oh yeah, the drive was 97.8% full. I just deleted some stuff I’d downloaded that I could get back any time I wanted if I wanted but at the moment I don’t want, and got it down to 88.6% full. That is a lot better, but still pretty full. I have some more stuff that I’d feel comfortable burning to DVD or such and then removing from my primary drive, but that I don’t feel comfortable completely deleting. So I think maybe tomorrow I’ll go get a blank DVD or two and see what I can do with that. I’d like to get under 80%. Even lower if possible. I suspect the fullness of my drive may have something to do with some of the slowdowns I’ve had lately. Maybe not, but it certainly seems like 97.8% was pushing it a little bit. Anyway, time to go watch a DVD with the family. Tonight is an Amy pick. Oh my. Results were just announced a few minutes ago. I pulled them from here. The top five:
Of course this bears no resemblance at all to the top five nationally. But that’s Iowa for you. And of course the straw poll is not the caucus either. ‘Freedom Is About Authority’: Excerpts From Giuliani Speech on Crime
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Another week, another Curmudgeon’s Corner. We’re up to 11. Woo. In any case, this week’s topics:
