Huh, I'm in a totally different time zone now. Board time is my time.

Confusing!

I don't know how that family didn't realize they had an extra boarding pass, etc.

I've got a bunch of second cousins once removed who are within a year or so of my age. Their great-grandmother and my grandmother were sisters, but their great-grandmother was eighteen years older than my grandmother.

This chart is handy for these discussions

Good chart.

I've been reading, well listening in my car really, Dune. I've been enjoying it and having a fully cast audiobook is just cool. I know there is a movie and I have a morbid curiosity to watch it sometime just to see how a book this introspective can be made into a movie. He thought, what makes me want to watch a movie just because I've read the book? I know I'll be bitterly disappointed.

For them I'm a "tante à la mode de Bretagne" (roughly, a Brittany-style aunt).

Oh, interesting! I wonder why?

I generally have functioned as an aunt to my first cousins. Our age spread isn't the hugest (there are 12 of us, plus two steps, from ages 41 to 14; i'm the 2nd eldest) but I'm much closer in age to most of my aunts and uncles than I am to my cousins.

I don't know how that family didn't realize they had an extra boarding pass, etc.

It was a chartered flight, so they weren't going commercial. I've never personally charted a plane to fly to Paris, so I don't know what the rules are for private planes.

Oh, no--Morgan Freeman is in serious condition after being in a car accident over the weekend. (I love that a big star like that was driving a 1997 Nissan Maxima.)

In better news, all of those Muppet videos that have been appearing on YouTube recently appear to be part of a viral marketing campaign.

It was a chartered flight, so they weren't going commercial.

Ah. But still!

I wonder why?

I think it's probably because Breton families are less mobile and are very close within the extended family, therefore a cousin once removed might be more like an aunt in closeness.

Ah. But still!

Oh, definitely. If you can count your luggage, you can count your kids.

Hmmm.... IKEA stores appear to form some sort of doughnut and Kansas City is in the hole. I guess there is a bite out of the north-northwest section of the doughnut. There are also a lot of extra sprinkles to the east section of the doughnut.