I'm glad things are going well after the move. I hope school goes well.

ION, really cool carpark signs.

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I have 18 surviving cousins on my mom's side (there were 21, but three died 25 years ago) and only two on my dad's. Interesting thing is that my mom has a similar number of maternal cousins, even though she had twice as many aunts/uncles as I do (Gramma was one of twelve, and Mom is one of six).

I have 18 surviving cousins on my mom's side (there were 21, but three died 25 years ago)

Not to be intrusive or morbid but three died at the same time?

My dad's an only child so no first cousins on that side. Loads of other cousins though. All in Texas.

had more of a childhood-with-cousins thing going on.

In my experience, this is key. There's a cousin a couple of years older than me, I hardly get to see her lately, what with nobody ever having enough time (she has two adorable little sons, on top of everything). When we were kids, our mothers pretty much made sure we spent time together every summer vacation, and we even used to correspond for a while (with actual letters! With stamps). Nowadays we hardly ever meet, mostly in big family events and the like, but when we do, it's like we're little kids telling each other stories to babble ourselves to sleep during long hot summer nights all over again - it's like we never left. I think it's all thanks to the shared childhood memories, and I'm grateful (because she's great, and did I mention the adorable sons?).

CJ starts school next week, so that is the next big hurdle.

Oh, good luck with that! I hope he has a great start.

plus selling the house in California

Lots of selling~ma.

I miss the Bay-istas like mad

Sorry, I don't even know what to wish regarding *that*. I bet they miss you lots, as well. Not that it helps, but still.

I bet they miss you lots, as well.

We do! We do!

Not to be intrusive or morbid but three died at the same time?

I talked about it once at World Crossing. I'm not going to bring everyone down here, but if you're interested, I'll white-font the info and leave it at that. My aunt killed herself and my cousins back in 1982. So, I sort of freaked out when the Andrea Yates verdict was handed down, which is what made me post about it.

I miss the Bay-istas like mad

We miss you too, doll. Very much.

Sorry, I don't even know what to wish regarding *that*.

Well, sending house-sale~ma helps that too, as it increases the chances of me flying back to California in the near future.

JZ! Another lovely Buffista with whom I haven't posted in too long.

OK, I just realized that for the last couple of hours and dozen graphs I made a mistake in calibrating the data, and had to delete them all. I'm so glad I found this out now, before I actually incorporated them into the actual work - it would have taken forever (which I can't afford) to track down all the mistakes if it were that late in the game. I've never been so pleased with the need to re-do a few hours' work.

I was telling my sister last week that there was a chance next year's F2F was going to be in Seattle, and that I was really looking forward to heading west for it, no matter where it ends up. I'm starting to save my pennies now, because I know I don't want to miss it again!!