- Jean's parents stopped by for a visit on their way back from Hawaii to Michigan. They are now safely back home.
- Before the crunch, just before, I finished Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. Lots of fun. I started replaying with a different character, but haven't had enough time/energy to do more than the intro section. Dunno if the replay value is high enough to continue.
- I got a bonus, and used some of it to replace my old, classic Blueberry iBook with a new, frost white iBook. So far I like it a lot. It's name is Mikura.
I'm sure there's lots more that has gone on, including Kelly's ongoing battles with real world horse riding lessons (you get hurt in the real world, damn!) and other stuff I just can't think of right now. Sorry, maybe later.
Now I wanna get up at 6am tomorrow, so I can get into work early (Jean's on break from school and taking Kelly to school for me) and log a few extra hours on my crunch project. So early to bed! Bye!
"Found a link today to the Ellis Island archives. For chuckles I typed in 'wakevainen' (my original family name) and found: Aukusti Wakevainen
ReplyDeleteApparently came here from Wupuri, Finland in 1913 at the age of 24, via Liverpool, on the Cedric. Wonder if he's related?"
I just found this from year 2001 and I thought to write in case youre interested. There�s never been a town called Wupuri in Finland. I guess it must be Viipuri (also known as wiipuri and wyborg), which was the second biggest town in Finland �til the second world war (in the war Soviet Union did take it over).
And I think that the name "Wakevainen" was originally written with dots on letter a:s V�kev�inen).
That's really interesting. I've been getting very discouraged with all the comment spam that various parasites have been posting to my weblog, and contemplating closing down comments.
ReplyDeleteAnd here comes another comment from someone who actually adds value! Thanks a lot!