Thanks so much, Hil. You're much better than Google.

I went back to sleep. yay.

Dutch Delight, Perkins. It has strawberries and bananas. Yummm. Now I know you must come visit Madison, we have two Pancake Houses (the Original version) in just our one small town.

If I needed another reason, that would be a good one.

Perkins, whyforhowcome the SJ one? Isn't Los Altos closer to both you and G&J?

Not for them, and it is really close to G's work, where I think he will be headed after breakfast.

I seem to have booked a holiday by accident. Oh dear. Egypt, here I come.

My mother is a geneology fiend. As far as I know, she does not have geneology software. She's not technical, but does all right with her PC.

However, Family Tree Maker's distributor has the fun habit of asking for copies of your genealogy so they can put it in their main database which is only available by subscripton. If you object to doing the work for free so someone else can sell it, then you might want to check other packages. I use Family Origins from FormalSoft (I'm a recovering genealogy fiend who's been feeling the itch, but between fic and dead relatives, I generally choose fic for my spare time. Dead relatives don't have hot sex. And if they do I don't want to know.)

I use FamilyTreeMaker too, but it was fairly expensive, it installed some additional software I didn't want that was hard to get rid of (I think it was adware from Broderbund, but I don't remember the details now, just that it left a bad impression—it ran in the background and wanted internet access), and they try to suck you into signing up for subscriptions to their database and software upgrades.

One alternative is Personal Ancestral File, which is free from the LDS [link] It has just as many bells and whistles as FamilyTreeMaker, but is not quite as intuitive to use.

edited further to add: It was dssagent.exe, spyware from Broderbund, and they say they stopped doing that in 2002.

Connie, and dcp, I already sent dh out shopping, but thank you, anyhow.

You guys are insane. Pink, yes. Glitter weekly. Hugs for sure. Bunny ears in your fevered dreams.

I have a NUMB3RS question: when they were reviewing the radar data in order to find the flight plan -- it was old data, right? How did that work? Is it something inherent to radar data? Aerospace radars were working at a metal frequency, weather at a water frequency. Did they combine the data to find something inbetween? It sure seemed like they were re-examining at a new frequency, but what's gathered is gathered. Can't change the past.

So I was confused. I do continue to adore the Epps family interaction. Judd Hirsch is amazing, and the two kids aren't bad at all.

I was wondering that too, ita, but then I pretty much assume I have to handwave the math and science and the fact that younger bro knows everything about everything math or science related that comes up.

Pancake house was good, but the apple pancake was too big. I didn't even finish have of it, and I am still full.

Also, I think I am going to have to do battle with my landlord over every little thing that needs to get done. He promised me the counter tops in the kitchen would be replaced, and one of the two of them was, even though it wasn't quite finished grout wise, but the other one had to be special ordered so it wasn't in yet, then it was in, and they would have installed it, but they claimed the maintanance couldn't install it since I had boxes in the way (fair enough), so then I unpacked those boxes, but now the countertop isn't in yet. Grr.

I don't mind that Charlie knows all the math. But him knowing how to use all the computer programs bothers me. Go figure.

Perkins, my landlord hasn't done the touchups they promised either. They had a whole week before I moved in! Still, I have a few boxes in my bedroom -- I should get rid of those before I have them in to fix stuff in there.

For Jesse, should she stop by.

Perkins, my landlord hasn't done the touchups they promised either. They had a whole week before I moved in! Still, I have a few boxes in my bedroom -- I should get rid of those before I have them in to fix stuff in there.

Grr to your landlord too. I clearly have been slackerly about getting the apartment set up, so it's hard to get upset that they are doing the same, but it irks me that the stories keep changing.

For Jesse, should she stop by.

Not Jesse, but yum.