📅 April 2011

The damn tortoise always burries himself in a holr he digs under the rose thorns. It makes me so angry. I almost suspect he knows this and hopes I just leave him outside overnight. Unfortunately for both of us it's just to cold still for overnights.

We went for a bike ride at the park. @KeithT has a new attachable speaker that Cyndi got him for his birthday. Its actually really loud. I think Dave D might like one if these for camping. Its amazing how nasty the scajaquada sludge gets.

Blackberries make the perfect addition to any protein.

Pretty sure Sicily was not a country in 1997 when my grandfather's death certificate was filled out at Millard Fillmore.

I was going through a lot of the family documents I scanned while Nonna was alive.

I found this one document that maps a hundred years of Nonna's lineage issued back in 1941. It goes back even further though.

At the top it says, "Dai Registri Parrocchiali esistenti in questo Archivio, risulta la seguente discendenza ultracentenaria della famiglia di agricoltori." Which according to google means, "the parish registers exist in this archive is the following hundred years, descendants of the family of farmers"

Its neat to find out their names.
Grandfather: Giorgio Armenia (07/04/1915)
Grandmother: Pierina Stevanto (06/29/1915)
married 01/31/1948

Great Grandfather: Fortunato Stevanto (06/14/1878)
Great Grandmother: Teodolina Rizzato

Great, Great Grandfather: Antonio Stevanato (02/08/1850)
Great, Great Grandmother: Teresa Casarin

Great, Great, Great Grandfather: Pasquale Stevanato (10/03/1809)
Great, Great, Great Grandmother: Furlan Maria

Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather: Angelo Stevanato (05/08/1789)
Great, Great, Great, Great Grandmother: Margherita Battiston

Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather: Pasqualin Stevanato (05/08/1789)
Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandmother: Girolima Salviato OR Salviato Girolima. Its weird because the other names on the document are lastname, first but salviato doesn't sound like a woman's name.

I can finally do a one handed cartwheel again. Next step: roundoff, back handspring.

Nature really took care of that one. I hopebaby giant pumpkin plants start growing in the yard. It could say me some cash.

This was his first day outside. Its weird, this morning I brought him in grass and plants from outside to eat and he barely touched them but as soon as he got outside he chowed down for like 3 hours.

...wire is really time consuming. I think it is left best as a third world enterprise.

I had all this wire I ripped off the house after moving the server.



I spent several hours, got about 1/10th of the way through the wire pile and ended up with like 1lb of copper which is worth about $4.50 on the open market.



Luckily, Its projected to go up 2 cents over the next two months. In the meantime I am going to make myself the largest copper ball ever.

@tinypliny and I made yummy rice bowls and played with crunch bang Linux. She just left now after we talked about my work projects, genetics, the history of Hinduism, the war between China and India, ghandi, mother Theresa. Harold Krishna's, the Ainu people of Japan, Muslims, early American slave diets, Marco Polo and the server.



This is crunchbang linux, @tinypliny loves it.