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!!

I have one cousin who is not actually related to me by blood. (She is, in fact, Philippina, which makes introductions entertaining. Or did last I saw her, which is probably six or eight years ago now.) One uncle and aunt. I think my dad has some extended relations out there but no one I really know.

I have a Chinese first cousin, adopted.

Dalik Volinitz.

Of course I know him! Actually, he always creeped me out a little bit.

You probably weren't even born when they showed "shminiot ba'avir"

Right, but I was a kid when he had a show on Saturdays mornings on channel 2, "Morning of Fun". The opening credits were Tislam's song, and that's where I know it from.

shapes-of-8 in the air

lolz.

My aunt and uncle were married when Irene (the cousin) was five or six. So in fact, I suppose I could say that most of my extended family is Philippino. Certainly I know them better than whoever is still alive on the American-born side. Nila (my aunt) has tons of family and they're mostly in the DC area so I did major holidays with them for a number of years. It was always fun watching them try to remember to speak English instead of Tagalog. Not when they were speaking directly to me of course, but for general dinner table talk, the conversation would get going and then they'd all stop short and start up again in English. Ah, Thanksgiving. The usual turkey, cranberry, etc. and then sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves and a host of other things I didn't begin to recognize.