The night before last, I just couldn't sleep. Was up tossing and turning all night. When morning came, I regretfully rose and went to class, which I really didn't get anything from, though my small group was good. I'm pretty sure I went to sleep for a bit right after that, and then got up again for lunch and my second class. We spent the last whole half of that class in groups, which surprised me, and after the class my project group decided (without really clearing things to see if it'd be alright with all of us) that we had to suddenly have a mandatory meeting for the next 45 minutes. That was supremely dull and irritating, especially since they're rushing me (quite unnecessarily, in my opinion) with my section of the assignment by setting arbitrary (and all-too-early) deadlines for things - especially since, unlike all of them, I've done hundreds of pages of reading as research. So of course I might take, say, a couple hours past their chosen deadline for my bit, thank you very much.
I think I went back to sleep after that, then got up for a late supper. One of my friends stayed around to keep me company, which was greatly kind of her, and we talked for a while. I tried helping her troubleshoot her phone's refusal to access her voicemail, but to no avail. I hope she gets that worked out soon. Then I came back here, got some reading done (?), and began to realize that I'm probably getting sick. Of course, I'd been having some pains and a very sore throat for at least that whole day, perhaps the previous one as well, but I just figured for the most part that it was just one of those things.
Anyway, with my headache and fatigue, I couldn't very well get much substantive work done, so I wanted to watch something on Hulu. But nothing on Hulu would load. So then I updated my Java, and then tried updating Adobe Flash Player. But Adobe Flash Player can't update with any browsers open, so I closed it... but it still gave the same objection. So I tried to reopen Firefox, and it said that it was still open and needed to be closed before I could open it. Bleh. So after restarting my computer a few times, I went on Internet Explorer and looked it up. Seems this isn't a totally uncommon Firefox issue, and the way to deal with it is to open the Task Manager, look at the Processes tab, and manually shut down the still-active Firefox process, which for some reason remains up even though the program has terminated. Weird. So after that I was able to update Adobe Flash Player, which then allowed me to watch House (season 8, episode 1) on Hulu. It was great. Shame they tend to introduce new settings in some first episodes, but then shift things back so quickly. There's a lot more they could milk that new concept for.
So then, while talking to a few people via Skype, I did a bit more genealogical work. I found an old 1909 county directory - like an old phone book, minus phones - that was very helpful, but I'll need to look up the abbreviations. For instance, one line for one of my ancestors is "Mowrey Robert V sr, lab, res w s Walnut 3 n Miller". Now that one's not so tough to crack as some others, thankfully. The thing that makes this more useful than the census records is that the census seldom took down precise addresses; it grouped things according to streets and kept a running tally of the order houses were visited in. But if I were to combine this directory's data with some census data, I could perhaps get a sense of how the census-taker moved...
Anyway, before bed I caught up on a few blogs - mainly political and economic ones - and then watched a few YouTube videos before I finally tried to get some sleep. I eventually got a bit, I suppose. This morning I got up, took a half-hearted shower, got a chapter finished in David Anderson's The King-Priest of Psalm 110 in Hebrews, and stumbled to class through the rain. Class took a while to really get going, since the professor was having some technical difficulties (even more than usual, I mean), but we finished the lecture just in the nick of time at the end. Then I returned here and caught up a bit on sleep. Got up, got a quick lunch. The food selection was excellent. Sesame chicken, curly fries, patty melts.... One of the best lunches they've provided. Shame that my sense of taste and my appetite are both quite dulled by this sickness. I'm pretty sure God got a chuckle out of that. Still managed to compel myself to eat most of it, save the bulk of the chicken, which tends to be a tad hard here. Then I returned to my room through the rain. Now here, I'm listening to a shorter episode of the Genealogy Gems podcast while my computer continues downloading episodes of the EconTalk podcast I discovered last night and while I finish up this blog entry. Then I'll make sure to do my daily entrance into Ancestry.com's current sweepstakes, check out what the new free database of the day is, and get some more sleep before I have to get up and... ugh... get to work.
I think I went back to sleep after that, then got up for a late supper. One of my friends stayed around to keep me company, which was greatly kind of her, and we talked for a while. I tried helping her troubleshoot her phone's refusal to access her voicemail, but to no avail. I hope she gets that worked out soon. Then I came back here, got some reading done (?), and began to realize that I'm probably getting sick. Of course, I'd been having some pains and a very sore throat for at least that whole day, perhaps the previous one as well, but I just figured for the most part that it was just one of those things.
Anyway, with my headache and fatigue, I couldn't very well get much substantive work done, so I wanted to watch something on Hulu. But nothing on Hulu would load. So then I updated my Java, and then tried updating Adobe Flash Player. But Adobe Flash Player can't update with any browsers open, so I closed it... but it still gave the same objection. So I tried to reopen Firefox, and it said that it was still open and needed to be closed before I could open it. Bleh. So after restarting my computer a few times, I went on Internet Explorer and looked it up. Seems this isn't a totally uncommon Firefox issue, and the way to deal with it is to open the Task Manager, look at the Processes tab, and manually shut down the still-active Firefox process, which for some reason remains up even though the program has terminated. Weird. So after that I was able to update Adobe Flash Player, which then allowed me to watch House (season 8, episode 1) on Hulu. It was great. Shame they tend to introduce new settings in some first episodes, but then shift things back so quickly. There's a lot more they could milk that new concept for.
So then, while talking to a few people via Skype, I did a bit more genealogical work. I found an old 1909 county directory - like an old phone book, minus phones - that was very helpful, but I'll need to look up the abbreviations. For instance, one line for one of my ancestors is "Mowrey Robert V sr, lab, res w s Walnut 3 n Miller". Now that one's not so tough to crack as some others, thankfully. The thing that makes this more useful than the census records is that the census seldom took down precise addresses; it grouped things according to streets and kept a running tally of the order houses were visited in. But if I were to combine this directory's data with some census data, I could perhaps get a sense of how the census-taker moved...
Anyway, before bed I caught up on a few blogs - mainly political and economic ones - and then watched a few YouTube videos before I finally tried to get some sleep. I eventually got a bit, I suppose. This morning I got up, took a half-hearted shower, got a chapter finished in David Anderson's The King-Priest of Psalm 110 in Hebrews, and stumbled to class through the rain. Class took a while to really get going, since the professor was having some technical difficulties (even more than usual, I mean), but we finished the lecture just in the nick of time at the end. Then I returned here and caught up a bit on sleep. Got up, got a quick lunch. The food selection was excellent. Sesame chicken, curly fries, patty melts.... One of the best lunches they've provided. Shame that my sense of taste and my appetite are both quite dulled by this sickness. I'm pretty sure God got a chuckle out of that. Still managed to compel myself to eat most of it, save the bulk of the chicken, which tends to be a tad hard here. Then I returned to my room through the rain. Now here, I'm listening to a shorter episode of the Genealogy Gems podcast while my computer continues downloading episodes of the EconTalk podcast I discovered last night and while I finish up this blog entry. Then I'll make sure to do my daily entrance into Ancestry.com's current sweepstakes, check out what the new free database of the day is, and get some more sleep before I have to get up and... ugh... get to work.
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