Blogging Break
I’m traveling today through Sunday sans laptop and thus taking a short break from blogging. Steven Taylor is also taking a hiatus from posting non-Open Forum and photo content.
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Safe travels
Woo! Huge party at OTB this weekend!
YES! OTB is party central this weekend.
@james, enjoy your weekend, sans computer.
Ummm. Now what?
And what the hell am I supposed to read this weekend?
Have a fun weekend.
Enjoy your time away.
Oh, we’ll behave. Promise.
(Evil snicker.)
Does this mean that when the mindless moderation machine snags our witty words commenters will be SOL?
Test
Parents are away, let’s party!
::grinning devil emoji::
What kind of Luddite doesn’t bring a laptop while traveling?
Safe travels! We’ll miss you!
Have fun!
Hope you guys have fun. We will. (rubs hands together in a most evil way while giving the side eye to my fellow commentors.
Where’s the Friday forum? I wanna make trouble.
@CSK: MIA. My guess is both James and Steven thought the other would schedule it.
@OzarkHillbilly:
We’re a clever bunch. We’ll make do with this thread.
@CSK: My thoughts exactly.
I’ve been engaged in digging into family history. Right now, I’ve been exploring my family in post Civil War small town Ohio. Our public library has online access to Newspaper Archive which has scanned newspapers from all the country. It’s been invaluable in finding little details about ancestors. Small town newspapers were incredibly gossipy so even little things like one sister traveling to see her sister in another town is documented along with death notices and funerals.
To make this story short, on a page that mentioned a great-great Aunt, there was this piece of gossip that made me laugh.
From the Wellington Enterprise, July 3, 1879:
There is a lot of insight into small town life in a different century that could be made in this short little piece.