Farscape!

This weekend, I finished watching the Farscape series on DVD, with the TV movie "The Peacekeeper Wars." I had seen the movie when it was originally on, back in 2005 I believe. It was definitely a satisfying conclusion to the series, but I think it did suffer from just having to resolve so much in so short a period of time.

The plot was right where it should be, but over the course of a season we would have seen so many more good character moments. It wasn't that the movie lacked good moments for the cast, but it was just too compressed. But, I still give the move a B+/A-, as it was a solid conclusion to the show. Of course, Ben Browder and Claudia Black are back working together on one of the Stargate shows. A bit of stunt casting, to be sure, but I'm glad they're working.

Just don't make me watch the show...

Tonight's my last night of duty until late in November. Without going into details, it's been a busy week. It wasn't so much the volume of things to deal with, it was that there were odd things, that were a bit off the beaten track for normal residence life stuff. But, that's why I'm paid the moderately low bucks!

I also watched the Japanese-Raymond Burr'less version of the very first Godzilla movie. It's quite good, and a much darker film than the Americanized version was. The American version focuses on the monster aspect, while there's much more of an anti-nuclear (but not anti-American) stance in the Japanese version. It's very well done for basically being a movie where the main character is a person in a dinosaur-monster outfit.

NP: Soundgarten - Spoonman

Remiss!

Of course, as Jen pointed out, I'd be remiss in not also pointing out that my stepsister Holly and her husband Dan just had their very own baby! Of course, Holly did the lion's share of the "birth" work, so really she had the baby, but we got to include the father somehow, right?

Tonight's still a duty night for me, I'll be on call to respond to any campus events until Monday morning at 9am or so. It appears that campus is pretty quiet right now, a lot of students go home for the weekend, or away with friends, so I may not get awoken in the middle of the night. Here's to hope!

I did have to run around a bit tonight, taking care of a few minor issues, so I missed portions of Battlestar Galactica. However, I did get the general idea of the episode. If you watch the show, and haven't seen this week's episode yet, you should stop reading, and come back when you've seen the show.

• It's good to see Baltar finally fall in with the Cylons on a permanent basis, in a similar way to how the original Baltar did in the first series. Not that the process was the same, but now, we'll have a better window into the Cylon world with Baltar with them.
• The image of Galactica coming through the atmosphere was great. As was Adama's final statement to his crew, before the arrival of Pegasus.
• It's sad to see Pegasus go, but I am a sucker for ramming speed. And it's good that a piece of the Pegasus took out another Base Ship...
• Adama the Hero, Tighe the Forgotten...
• I was not surprised to learn that Casey was not actually Starbuck's baby, but I did think that she was a Cylon child. So, to see that she was just another human was a good twist.
• Will Roslyn now be President for Life or something along those lines, or will there be another election?

That's all my thoughts for now. I got another Galactica disc from Netflix today, so that will probably be my viewing for tomorrow.

NP: Emerson Lake & Powell - Still, You Turn Me On... (Summer 1986)

Thursday!

Yes, I've sunk to a new low. I have no other subject for this blog, just the day...

Granted, I don't really take much time coming up with my catchy one word titles. I just go for it. That's the wildman I am on this blog.

I've been thinking about asking for a roll call in the comments here, to see how many "regular" readers I get on this. I know of a few friends/family who check in like clockwork, but I'm curious about who else is out there. But, I wonder if asking people for "attendance" is a bit too much like seeking random affirmation. Your thoughts? Feel free to write comments...

On the reading front, I just started a new science fiction book by Alastair Reynolds, called Century Rain. I have been reading less SF recently, mainly because there's more non-fiction out there that's of interest to me than fiction. However, Reynolds is a newer author who I've found, and he writes stories that aren't just space monster shoot 'em ups. I'm all for a good adventure, but less in reading and more on tv or in movies.

I've just started this book, but it seems to be a sort of murder mystery, beginning in Paris 1959, but there's a future section to it also, taking place at least a couple centuries in the future, when Earth is uninhabitable. I'm assuming the two stories are going to link up at some point, but I'm too early in the narrative to see where it's going. I've enjoyed his previous books, so I'm hoping this one will be a good read.

Other books "on deck" I have are "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, "Star Wars on Trial," edited by David Brin and some other guy, "Abducted," by someone named Clancy, and "American Sphinx" by Joseph Ellis. Having only four books in my on deck area is rare for me, but I haven't found a good bookstore in this area yet. There's a Barnes & Nobles in Hoboken I'll have to check out, and I'm sure there's some other ones around, I just haven't made time to find them yet.

And a hearty congrats to my friend Lou and his wife Sania, they had a baby last week!

NP: Jeff Buckley - Nightmares By The Sea

Stupid!

Have you ever done something really dopey, and spent the a lot of time kicking yourself about it? I just did something like that...

Sue and I opened up new bank accounts two weekends ago, since Citizens, our old bank from NH, doesn't have any branches in this area. On the Tuesday after Columbus Day, I gave our Human Resources office my new direct deposit information for the new bank. They said that the new deposit wouldn't take effect until my November 15th paycheck, so I could expect the October 15th check to go into my old account.

Therefore, when the 15th rolled around, I initiated some bill payments, and debited them from my Citizens account. Granted, I should have checked the Citizens website, to see if my pay had credited...

You see where this is going, don't you?

So, on Monday, I check Citizens on-line, and there's still no sign of my cash. With a sinking feeling, I check my new account, and bingo, there's my money.

Eep.

I do some quick transferring of money from my old Savings into my checking account, and I end up only being overdrafted by a measly 60 cents! Today, I sent a check off to Citizens to cover that small amount. But still, it's been a pain in the butt as I've scurried around on-line, and on the phone, trying to resolve all this. I don't like being overdrawn, but I do realize I should have checked the online accounts thoroughly before initiating payment. Now, I know for the future not to do this...

In happier news, my friend Brian came down to visit this weekend. It's always too short, but when you live a few states away from each other, you take what you can get. We geeked out, talking a lot about nerdy TV stuff, watched some fun movies (Shaun of the Dead, anyone), and just hung out. It was very casual, which was good. In the future, we may do some more NYC/NJ stuff, but for this visit, relaxed was the course of the day.

I'm sure there'll be more visits in the future. Maybe I can take Brian on the cemetery tour, and show him where all my old relatives are buried. Wouldn't that be *fun?*

Wouldn't it?

NP: Frank Zappa - Dental Hygene Dilemma

Rain!

Ah, it's raining a bit now, should be kind of dreary for the next few days. Weather. What can you do?

Can I get any more inane on this thing? Weather talk. If you're really interested in the weather, go to here. Really.

I'm on the verge of finishing the present book I'm reading, "The Pirate Coast," the story of the liberation of about 300 US Navy sailors from Tripoli in the early 1800's. It's one of those events in history that people kind of know about ("...From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli..." and all that), but that is really sketchy on the details when pressed. The book focuses on William Eaton, former American consul to Tripoli, and leader of a semi-US sponsored effort to overthrow the government of Tripoli. The book generally does a good job with the story, but the author is really in love with Eaton as a character. Not a real detraction to the book, but it's certainly not a really balanced account of the events. I am glad I read it, though. I have about 10 pages left.

That's the excitement here for now. More to come later, I'm sure...

NP: Adrian Belew - Big Blue Sun

Headstones!

Here are the two headstone photos that should have been in the blog the other day. This first one is for James and Sarah Lang. James died in 1861, and Sarah in 1884.

Below, you'll see the small headstone for John Lord, my G3-GF, who died in 1890. He was born in Ireland, and served in the Civil War for 3 years.

Exercise!

Tonight, I used our new elliptical machine for the first time for exercise (trying it out when it was first put together doesn't count). I exercised for about 14 minutes, and that was good to start. I'll try to increase by 5 minute increments over the next few days, until I'm up to 30 minutes.

That's about as much of my daily life I'm willing to give up to exercise. I have better things to do with my time that that. Like writing here. Or picking belly button lint out of the appropriate places.

Too much?

I had off from work today, while Sue had to work. We spent yesterday in Hoboken, hanging out in a park by the Hudson playing checkers, and then eating outside at a Mexican place. To prove we did all that, here's a picture of a boat on the river.

Ah, now isn't that pretty! Let me take a drink of water, and I will be right back...

Ah! H20.

Today, since Sue had to work, I did what any normal person would do on a beautiful, sunny day. I went to 3 different cemeteries!

My first stop was at Hollywood Cemetery in Union, NJ. I was looking for the plot of Thomas Lord, a cousin of my grandfather. Supposedly, according to another cousin, Thomas is buried right near his parents William and Elizabeth, but on exploring the area, I could not find a headstone for him. When I've asked before, the main office does not have a record for Thomas's burial in their cemetery. Very strange.

I then went to Fairmount Cemetery in Newark. I've been there numerous times before, but I wanted to see if I could find some headstones on Lord plots, that are there according to cemetery records, but may be overgrown. Here's an example of a cleaned up headstone, that was getting covered with grass. (NOTE: Blogger is having trouble with photos, so I will have to see if I can upload them later, perhaps tomorrow morning. The same goes for the John Lord photo mentioned below.)

Of course, for a real comparison, I should have taken a photo before I cleaned it up. Live and learn. The above photo is for the grave of James and Sarah Lang, my great-great-great-great grandparents. They lived in Harrison/East Newark in the 1860's, after having immigrated here from Ireland.

And just to round out that trip, here's a picture of John Lord's headstone, from the same plot. John is my great-great-great grandfather, also born in Ireland, and he married Jane Lang in Newark in 1851. According to the Fairmount records, Jane should have a headstone in the same plot, but it's not there. Seeing how much these were covered with grass in just about a year since my last visit, I could imagine that there are some headstones that are just buried under an inch or two of grass.

I have a 3 foot long dowel that I put a nail into one end, in order to poke around in the ground to see if I would feel the distinctive "stop" of a nail hitting stone. However, I'm not sure if the nail is long enough to reach stones that may be under more than an inch of dirt or grass. I'll have to look for a longer nail.

Or, could there be any metal detector type thing that can find cut stone under dirt? Or would all the coffins and other stuff mess that up? Side scanning sonar? Something? There's got to be money in there for something like that, to have someone invent it, if it's not real already.

Also on the genealogy front, I've dug up a possible second marriage for one of my great-great-great-great-great grandfathers, Alexander Lindsay. Alex's (I am on a first name basis with these people) first marriage was to my G5-grandmother, Marion Dyer. However, based on Scotland census records, I discovered 3 additional children of Alex's, born appreciably after his first batch. And, Marion was nowhere to be seen. Therefore, I thought, the 3 additional kids may be from a second marriage. Today, thanks to the Mormon's, I think I found that second marriage. It would be to a woman named Helen Hosie.

And, in reviewing Alexander's 1841 and 1851 census records, I saw that his neighbors were a family of Hosie's. So, once I can get the official marriage record from Scotland's People, I can possibly confirm this second marriage. My hope would be that the marriage record would say something like, "Alexander Lindsay, widower of Marion Dyer, married..." blah blah blah...

Genealogists live in hope.

In random television news, I watched the premiere of Battlestar Galactica on Friday night. Even though I haven't seen the second half of Season 2 yet (it's next on my Netflix list), I was able to follow along with the plot pretty well. I won't get into a detailed analysis here, but it was quite good. There was a bit at the end, with Starbuck's baby, where I thought that perhaps the baby and the Cylon father were in cahoots, that the accident the child had wasn't "real," but we'll see where that ends up...

NP: Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days

Technology!

Today, we got a call from Sears, about a delivery we're receiving on Wednesday. It was a robot caller, and it left a message on our voice mail, as I was at work, and Sue was enjoying the sunshine down on the Hoboken riverfront.

Now, what just hit me a few minutes ago was that the message left on the voicemail was a complete message. It wasn't cut off at all. Which means that the robot was able to listen to our message, wait for it to conclude, and then leave its own message.

I don't know about you, but that's pretty impressive technology to me. Does the robot wait for silence before doing its thing, or can one robot voicemail somehow communicate with another, so that it knows to wait? Anyone have any answers out there?

In other, non-technology news, I got a genealogy request back in the mail today. Listen to this. I'm trying to get a death record from the state of Iowa, for a James Coulson, who died back in August/September of 1894. Iowa requires that someone who requests a death record should be no further back than a grandson. Other people do not have "permission" to request the record. So, I send a letter with my request for the death record, saying that I'd be the great-great-great-grandson of this James Coulson, but part of the reason I'm requesting the record is to confirm that relationship.

So, I get my request back in the mail today, stating: "Please do more research and when you know your relationship for sure you can re-apply."

I'm basically being told to do more research, to confirm the relationship that I'm trying to determine by requesting this death record from Iowa. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

Come on!

This is one of the frustrations of the modern genealogist. Laws that have been enacted to protect individual privacy (and rightly so), are being applied to records over 100 years old, for records that have nothing of use to identity thieves. Modern records may have cause of death (a private medical issue, which the state of NJ blanks out on their genealogy record requests), Social Security numbers (available through the SSDI-Social Security Death Index), or other information that may be considered private. Old records are generally only of real use to family history researchers, and some states account for this, by putting certain records under more restrictive use.

In NJ, birth records before 1923, and marriage and death records before 1940 are all publicly available at the NJ State Archives. For records after those dates, a person must request them formally from the State Vital Records office. Not a huge hoop to jump through, but it is a way to make sure that the vital record office can redact any private information.

So, I'm a little bitter about the Iowa thing. If I had written that I was certain of the relationship, even though I wasn't, would they have given me the record? Am I being penalized for being honest?

As I said before, COME ON!!!! (In my best Gob Bluth voice...)

NP: Fission Trip - Master

Weekend!

It was a bit of a busy weekend up here in the Lord household. Well, not really, but I can pretend, can't I?

On Saturday, my mom came up to visit our apartment in Jersey City for the first time. She took the train from Allenhurst up to Newark, then the PATH train from Newark to Jersey City. Not a hard trip at all for her, from what she said. For the future, I will probably give her driving directions, now that she knows where she's going. But, if she wants to continue to train it, that's fine also...

We were hoping to get over to Liberty Island to visit the Statue of Liberty, but by that time in the afternoon on Saturday we got there (around 3pm), the weather had turned, and rain was threatening. So, the Statue will have to wait for another day. It was fun visiting Liberty State Park, we got some nice photos, and I was able to point out some parts of the train station there that were relevant for the immigration story of my mom's grandparents, who all came over from Poland between 1900 and 1907. They all passed through the old train station at Liberty State Park on their way to South Amboy and Elizabeth.

Before heading to Liberty State Park, we went out for lunch a little after 1pm to "Rita & Joe's," an Italian restaurant here in Jersey City. It was really quite good, and a place I'll feel free to go back to in the future. I had the Chicken Parmigiana (I'm probably misspelling that...), Sue had a salad, and my mom had pasta with vodka sauce. We all enjoyed our meal, and for three people, I think the total was about $50, which isn't horrible. We'll have to go back for dinner at some point, to see how it is then also, but for now, it gets my thumbs up!

Today, Sue and I went to see "Jackass II," which was really funny, in that "Let's watch idiots do really stupid stuff to themselves and each other" kind of way. For a laughs per minute ratio, it's hard to beat. Of course, you have to like stupid humor, but if you do, more power to you.

What's funny to me is that one of the guys in the Jackass "crew," I think his name is Bam, reminds me a bit of my friend Bill O'Neil, not in behavior (well, maybe a little), but more in looks. It's like they could be cousins or something. Probably not brothers...

On Friday evening, Joe and I did our recording of a new Pseudocertainty show, and it's up on the site, for your listening pleasure. Let me know what you think...

NP: Pink Floyd - Echoes

Oops!

Well, I mentioned on here yesterday that I thought that the year anniversary of this blog was coming up. I have since looked more closely, and I started this blog on 18 September 2005, so the year date has already passed.

Sue me!

I forgot to mention, also, that one of the movies Sue and I saw recently was Beerfest, the latest Broken Lizard movie, from the same people who did Super Troopers. Beerfest was fun, I viewed it as a live action cartoon. Good doofy fun.

Onto deeper things, work continues to go well. It's funny, because I'm not even at the three month mark (that'll be on October 10th), but it feels like I've been there much longer, and not in a bad way. Of course, I'm still figuring stuff out, like where to put items to file away, but overall, it's going well. Having a title like "Assistant Director," gets some attention when you ask people to do things, but there's also relationship building that has to happen, because titles only go so far.

I'm beginning to get calls from other offices, people looking for assistance, or even my opinion about approaches to initiatives, oddly enough. It's fun, but also something to get used to.

Tomorrow, I'll be consolidating my list of stuff to talk about on the next episode of Pseudocertainty. It should be fun, as Joe and I haven't recorded an episode in quite awhile.

NP: Brian Eno + David Byrne - Mea Culpa

Year!

You know, I'm coming up on the one year anniversary of doing this blog. That is, if it hasn't already passed yet. I hope you've enjoyed going on this voyage of life with me. I'm sure it hasn't always been scintillating, but life is lived in the moments between exciting happenings.

For basic daily routine today, I did laundry and dishes. We also put up some more stuff on our walls, but there's more to do. I organized the remaining art (mainly Sue's stuff, which is quite good) a little better, so it didn't look as much like a mess. Over the next day or so, we'll get the rest of the stuff up, or at least decide what will go up where.

This Friday, Joe J. and I are planning on recording another episode of Pseudocertainty. This will be the first one recorded down here in NJ, while Joe is in Boston. I hope that the internet connection is still good enough to let Skype work.

I realized the other day that this is the first time in years that my "center of gravity" isn't Boston, but now the New York/New Jersey area. What I mean by this is that, even when I was out at grad school in Michigan, Boston was a place that was very easy to return to. It's a place where a lot of life happened. Now, that "center" has changed back to the New York/New Jersey area. It's not a bad thing, and maybe it's more measured by what major metropolitan area is closest, but it is very noticable, for me at least. Except for when I was out in East Lansing, I haven't been more than 2.5 hours from Boston since 1989. That's now different.

I do enjoy being back in the New York area, it'll allow me to see family more often, and see New York friends that I've felt a little neglectful about, but I do miss the easy access to Boston. I'm sure we'll get up there again, possibly even before the year is out, but it is a change.

NP: Magma - K.A III

Audience!

You know, you go away from blogging for a few days, and people can't stop asking when you'll blog again!

Okay, when I say people, I mean two, and one of them was my mom. But, it's an audience, and so, I write...

I like to do these blogs in the evening, after Sue goes to bed. It gives me some time when writing won't take away from our awake time together. It's not that this is private in any way, Sue reads it, so it's not that, I just like the quiet of doing this now. I haven't done any blogging recently, in the last week or so, because I've been going to bed earlier. I've been really tired starting around 11ish. I figured my body needed rest, so the blog was sacrificed.

The most exciting news in the world of Lord over here is that Sue has been offered, and has accepted a position over in Manhattan at The New School. I won't go into the details, as it's really her business, but she has a great job, and is going to do fantastic with it. I think it'll be a good move for her. If she wants to take classes there, she can, which will be fun for her.

Once she gets in a good rhythm with the job, we'll be able to figure out our budget for savings, what we can do for future vacations, and other stuff. It'll be fun! It appears that we'll both get the same amount of vacation, and that we'll both have three day weekends during the summer. Good stuff.

Recent movies we've seen, with a thumbs up/thumbs down score:

• Snakes on a Plane: Thumbs up, but not as goofy as I was hoping...
• Little Miss Sunshine: Thumbs up, I enjoyed it, but it could have had a bit more of a resolution at the end. I would have liked to see a little more wrapping up.
• The Last Kiss: Thumbs up, but again, not a very deep film. A number of things happened, but you didn't really get into the characters as much as I would have liked.

I think that's all the movies for the past few weeks. I'm a fairly easy movie viewer. I generally will only see things that I think I will like.

That's all for now... More to come soon. I think I'm very close to the one year anniversary of this blog, which will call for some reflection, I'm sure...

NP: King Crimson - Exiles (20 Mar 1974)

Townshend!

If you have albums, tapes, CD's, mp3's, or whatever you listen to music on nowadays (8 track, anyone?), there are albums that you can return to over and over again, without getting tired of them at all. I recently revisited one of my favorite albums, Pete Townshend's "All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes," issued in 1983, and recently remastered with 3 bonus tracks.

I will admit first off, that I am a sucker for remastered versions of albums, and especially bonus tracks. So when I heard that Townshend's entire solo catalogue was going to be re-released, it was quite a delight. And this is the album I was looking forward to the most. Fortunately, I wasn't disappointed in the result.

With "Chinese Eyes," as it's often shortened to in conversation or in writing, it's not that every song on the album is a hit, or just destroys me when I listen to it, but it is truly the total package of how the album builds, never hitting a wrong beat, always keeping the mood right where it should be.

The first four songs on the album, "Stop Hurting People," "The Sea Refuses No River," "Prelude," and "Face Dances Part Two," really do well in introducing and setting the tone for the rest of the album. It's almost like these four songs make a mini-ep all of their own, putting the listener in the right place for what follows.

I've always thought of the next 5 songs as part of a piece that fit together for the body of the album. "Exquisitely Bored," "Communication," "Stardom in Acton," "Uniforms (Corp d'esprit)," and "North Country Girl" all fit together to create a reflective, wistful mood. Even the "up" songs like "Communication" have a thread of melancholy running through them that make the music match the content of the lyrics well.

The final two songs, "Somebody Saved Me" and "Slit Skirts" round out the album with the perfect conclusion, perhaps the best ending of an album that I've heard. "Somebody Saved Me" reflects on friendship and loss, while "Slit Skirts" focuses on the ennui of love faded to the point of not feeling even the shadow of love. Not the most happy of songs, but it works. And music doesn't have to be happy to be uplifting. I finish listening to this album always feeling reflective, and like I've heard a true masterpiece of art. As an album, a complete whole, I don't have many albums that beat this one.

NP: Ten Seconds - Nightwebs

Photo...

I took this looking out our living room window, looking east on the evening of September 11th.

Access!

Ah, the joys of computing in the modern age. I'm having massive slowdowns on the speed of internet access here in our apartment, I think because some people may be engaging in activities that take up massive amounts of bandwidth. I leave it to the brilliance of the reader to deduce what I am talking about.

I actually have a lot to write about, but I fear that it may get lost in the ether, if I try to post it during this slow internet period. But, I try, because that's what humans do.

Perhaps I will put a list of upcoming blog topics here. Yes, that sounds good...

• The brilliance that is the Pete Townshend album "All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes"
• Continued genealogical updates
• Items of New Jersey interest
• Brisco County Jr.
• Some photos
• Musings on friendships (good stuff, don't worry, friends)
• Old work stuff
• New work stuff

Seems like a full plate. More to come as I can write about this...

NP: Eric Idle - Paranoid Jails

Slow!

The internet connection here right now, since about Sunday, is VERY slow... I'll post some more stuff once the problem gets resolved...

Rest!

A night with no duty obligations. Wonderful.

Of course, I'll be on duty again tomorrow, but one night away is good for now. I believe next week, I'm on for the full week, but then it'll be about 5 weeks until my next duty, so that's really not bad.

I'm watching the 2 hour "Dirty Jobs" special on Discovery right now, so not much more to say...

Labor!

Happy Labor Day everyone! I can't wait to see what I got this year!

I have been "on duty" yesterday and today, so I haven't really been able to enjoy the long weekend, although I have been sleeping late, which is always a good thing. Duty is about as much work as I feel I should have to do on Labor Day.

Back when I worked at Dartmouth, we often had to start our UGA Training on Labor Day. I was often one of the sole voices against starting on Labor Day, as working on this day seemed anti-thetical to the whole idea of the day. That's why I don't like the whole Labor Day sale idea. Some poor worker is getting screwed and has to work, so that people with the day off can shop and save money.

Personally, I'd like EVERYONE to have off on Labor Day, but I understand that some jobs, like Police, Firefighters, etc, probably have to work today. So, I hope they get mondo amounts of overtime. They deserve it, for working on Labor Day.

In other news, I updated some genealogy stuff on my Mom's side of the family tonight. I got some info from Poland recently that gave me the names of two sets of G3-grandparents. They're Wojciech and Agata (Obuch) Drozd, and Wojciech and Marianna (Dziki) Stachura. That information was in a little note I got with some birth records from Poland. I wish the clerk had written where he had gotten the info, but I'm happy to have it, whatever the source.

I have a bit of a headache tonight, so it's time to sign off...

NP: George Harrison - Dark Horse (Dec 1991)

Compare!

Below, you will find a photo of a sharply dressed gentleman, who is Robert Lord, my Great-great-grandfather.
Now, below this text, is a photo of Elizabeth Lang, and her husband Matthew Cook. Elizabeth Lang is Robert's aunt, but is only 7 years his senior. She was born in about 1846, and Robert was born in 1853.

I think there's quite a resemblance in their facial structure. I guess Robert took after his mother's side, the Lang's, more than the Lord's. I have no photos of John Lord (Robert's father)to compare him to, unfortunately...

NP: Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58, Rondo: Vivace

89!

This Saturday, my grandmother is turning 89 years old. That means she was born in 1917, for all you math oriented folks out there.

Sue and I should be heading down to the NJ Shore area, to go to lunch with her and other members of my family, so it should be a good time.

In other news, I've been in contact with a 4th cousin once removed on the Lang side. My G3-grandmother, Jane Lang, had a sister named Elizabeth Lang. Elizabeth married a Matthew Cook, and they had a daughter together named Sarah. This woman I'm in contact with is descended from Elizabeth and Sarah. She sent me a photo she has of Elizabeth, who died in 1875. Elizabeth was an aunt to my G2-grandfather, who I do have a photo of, and there is a real family resemblance there. I'll post the photos here soon, for your own review...

NP: Pink Floyd - Hey You