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I’ve been amazed by the response that my small, but livid fascination with genealogy has garnered me. The last name ain’t Smith or Jones, so it’s bound to be a tad easier than for those folks. Still, I’ve met like minded relatives that have Googled their name and have stumbled upon my website.

The responses from Germany have been interesting, but difficult to comprehend, since the mother tongue ain’t Deutsch no longer. But I’ve recently been in contact with someone who claims that I may have ‘Royalty blood’. Call me silly, but I don’t think that ancestors such as that would have been related to the same farmers in the family that immigrated here the end of the 19th century.

There has been some debate weather or not some relation had shoed Jesse James’ Gang horses, which I guess is when many families liked to link their ancestors with sensational news or history of the day. Interesting. Also the claim that the father of modern gymnastics, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, was also a member of the clan.

I guess only good, solid research and actual facts will justify what is fiction and what isn’t.

It seems that whenever I pick up a magazine of any sort lately within 5-10 minutes of reading an article or excerpt on someone, the TV is highlighting that certain someone again. The questions are eerily the same and lately it seems that these famous someones just keep rehashing the same stories about their life and what brought them into the limelight recently.

I think it’s insulting to always repeat known information to the same audiences, say 3-4 times. But some people just get paid millions to rehash the same drab existence that the media claims is compelling.

Maybe it’s just the celebrity entertainment worship in this country that’s getting out of hand and boring. Heck, they even hype reruns of FRIENDS as the greatest episodes ever! I don’t think so, I’ve already watched them and read about them and heard all the cute, little stories ‘behind the scenes’.

Enough already!
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I find it humorous that the current guy sitting in the Oval Office at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has already began blowing his advertising monies on TV spots. Even worse is that he says he supports these ‘messages’. Who else is gonna support these messages? John Kerry? *** Update, Yes it even appears Mr. Kerry adheres to this scheme. Guess someone else pays for the ad and they just put a stamp of approval on it *** Or his money grubbing cronies? I’m sure glad this guy can support himself!!! And to top things off, Minnesota, being an actual ‘battleground’ state this election year means that the fun has only begun. For JOY!

This song is clever and everytime I listen to it, I am amazed by it. The lyrical content is amazing that I sometimes find just uttering lines sometimes and wondering where I actually picked up those lyrics. It’s a geniously penned masterpiece in my book, ‘nough said.

Inside Out
Eve 6

{Chorus}
I would swallow my pride
I would choke on the rhines
But the lack thereof would leave me empty inside
I would swallow my doubt
Turn it inside out
Find nothing but faith in nothing
Want to put my tender
Heart in a blender
Watch it spend round
To a beautiful oblivion
Rendezvous
Then I’m through with you

I burn burn like a wicker cabinet
Chalk white and oh so frail
I see our time has gotten stale
The tick-tock of the clock is painful
All sane and logical
I want to tear it off the wall
I hear words and clips and phrases
I think sick like ginger ale
My stomach turns and I exhale

{Chorus}

So Cal is where my mind states
But it’s not my state of mind
I’m not as ugly sad as you
Or am I origami?
Folded up and just pretend
Demented as the motives in your head

{Chorus}

I alone am the one you don’t know you need
Take heed feed your ego
Make me blind when you eyes close
Sink when you get close
Tie me to the bedpost

I alone am the one you don’t know you need
You don’t know you need me
Make me blind when you get close
Tie me to the bedpost

{Chorus}

Now I’m through with you

Rendezvous
Then I’m through with you

Been playing around with a ‘social bookmarking’ system at del.icio.us. I’m not sure what use it is. I always could just upload my favorites to a webpage to keep myself in touch with myself when away from homebase, but what’s so ‘delicious’ about that?

Gosh, all this food talk has made me hungry, maybe I’ll go grab an Apple!

Also the endless fascination with trucker lingo has lead me to confirm that your 10-35, 10-30.

10-7, 10-21, Over and OUT!