The house my mom lived in when she went to high school is still there. Every once in a while when we are over that way my dad will suggest driving by, mom usually doesn't want to but we have a few times, I think. I certainly get earfuls about how the streets around there have changed (spoiler: everything that used to be fields pretty much is not anymore, but the lakes my dad used to ride his bike to are now in a park so that's nice). The house my dad lived in at the same time isn't there anymore but he has pointed out the spot. And I don't think the famous house in Oakland that my grandmother painted pink after she got tired of their neighbors copying her paint choices every year is still there but I have seen where it was. IIRC a fence my grandfather put up *is* still there.
My mom has tracked down, she thinks, the house my great grandparents lived in Reno when my grandfather wandered down to the creek as a toddler and caused a panic. And the location of my great-great grandfather's blacksmith shop in Orange - there's a building there that may very well be the actual smithy. I haven't seen either in person, but pictures. Pretty neat.
There's such a thing as 'house genealogy' where you track down through property records and Census data who was living in your house (or owned the property where your present house is located). Or else track down where your family lived back through the generations!
I've done that a little, too!
FB is once again reminding me that a high school classmate of mine (with whom I am otherwise not in touch but FB likes to tell me about birthdays and anniversaries, so) married a man named Dick Wang which is a very immature thing to be giggling about but my sense of humor HAS NOT EVOLVED SINCE PUBERTY apparently.
That's a name that takes balls to carry off.
Hope there's a brother Harry.
A department-wide memo went out reminding people that customers can hear us over the phones when we swear at each other. Apparently the new phone system picks up background noise much better than the old one. All the geekboys are looking at each other guiltily. A couple of them sent anxious messages to find out if they were the ones who'd been caught. The response was "You'd already know if you were."
It does get pretty R-rated in here, but it's swearing for punctuation and emphasis, not anything else, so I just give them the Eyebrow of Inappropriateness when I hear it. "Old Enough to Be Your Mom or Grandma" has its advantages. I'd much rather deal with excessive emotion about how hard the latest update is for Final Fantasy or whatever than other things.
