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[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I was wondering how long it would take for affluenza to appear here. I think we'll see a lot of fun with that.

Dear, you mean EFFLUENZA

Affluenza is when you forsake your wealth and prestige to treat lepers in Africa like Albert Schweitzer.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The kids got their Christmas money already but the stocking stuffer is several generations of their genealogy I've compiled for 20 years or so. Their mom's genealogy is fairly complete for several generations but not so detailed as mine (her mother did her research and started late). Next year I'll distribute several more generations of data.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Yesterday was a good day for hunting ancestors. I bagged an obituary for a great-grandfather who died 60 years ago. And brought home several photos from 1938; one of the WPA photographers took several shots of my great-grandmothers farm in Georgia. I met the old lady when I was a kid but never met her daughter (my grandmother), and GM lived in my town. Go figure.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxeCnzWWlxE

The vid above is a nifty tutorial that gets to the nitty gritty of writing. Note that Gershwin's performance is best.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I read my first dorky David Goodis short story. Its THE PLUNGE. Its about a married detective (pregnant wife, 4 kids) who falls hard for a killer's girlfriend. I say dorky tho the ending was clever.

Started reading THE FATHER BROWN MYSTERIES of G.K. Chesterton. Father Brown is a meek, and born to be mild, parish priest with a marvelous nose for crime detection. Father Brown is prolly too tame for modern tastes, he has no vices or addictions, he just knows where to pick up from where the cops get lost.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Scanned 50 photos so far for the family history book.

The bride died a long time ago. She's my dad's first cousin, 'Jimmie.' Its her 1920s wedding photo.

The other is me and the bride 30 years ago. I had hair!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The Talmage Powell book arrived in the mail. Its the collection of stuff he wrote for Alfred Hitchcock. Twenty-five tales for Hitchcocks magazine. The first story was interesting, and better than I expected. A devoted wife goes to the drugstore for her husband and is murdered on the way home. Its really a ghost story. The dead wife becomes a spirit who learns how to haunt people.

Here's a SAMPLE from the genealogy book I compiled. I'm diligent and thorough.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Read another Talmage Powell story; its called GATOR. A Louisiana alligator poacher makes his stepson get outta their boat and act as gator bait. When the gator comes for the boy the stepfather shoots it. Later the kid sets the man up to be the gator bait.

Wonderful writing.

 

[patientlee]

Scanned 50 photos so far for the family history book.

The bride died a long time ago. She's my dad's first cousin, 'Jimmie.' Its her 1920s wedding photo.

The other is me and the bride 30 years ago. I had hair!

Great pics! No Wilfred Brimley there.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Great pics! No Wilfred Brimley there.

Shut up and eat your oatmeal, kiddo.

 

[patientlee]

Shut up and eat your oatmeal, kiddo.

Hee hee.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Hee hee.

Tests prove oatmeal give a gal big muscles, hairy chests, and significantly reduce the need for directions.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Got plenty of genealogical records printed today. I cant print all I have, there's too much. But its 7 generations of material. Next Christmas I'll add another 4-5 generations to complete the American Lines.

I also stumbled over 5 generations of my McDuffie Line; they extend the line about 150 years to 1700 when the first McDuffie immigrant arrived from Scotland.

 

[lovecraft68]

Scanned 50 photos so far for the family history book.

The bride died a long time ago. She's my dad's first cousin, 'Jimmie.' Its her 1920s wedding photo.

The other is me and the bride 30 years ago. I had hair!

Cool pics JB.

The first one is striking.

I have a fascination with old pictures I can't explain why, but I love to look at them.

The Providence Journal used to have a "Back when" type feature where people would send in their old pics of themselves or the city. It was cool stuff.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Cool pics JB.

The first one is striking.

I have a fascination with old pictures I can't explain why, but I love to look at them.

The Providence Journal used to have a "Back when" type feature where people would send in their old pics of themselves or the city. It was cool stuff.

I started with none, and now have 100s. I'll add a few more cuties I'm related to.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Used my Amazon GCs to order several books. Two classics by Nelson Algren, THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM and A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE, and 2 by Fredrick Brown: SCREAMING MIMI and THE FABULOUS CLIP-JOINT.

 

[ishtat]

Got plenty of genealogical records printed today. I cant print all I have, there's too much. But its 7 generations of material. Next Christmas I'll add another 4-5 generations to complete the American Lines.

I also stumbled over 5 generations of my McDuffie Line; they extend the line about 150 years to 1700 when the first McDuffie immigrant arrived from Scotland.

One of my wife's ancestors may have transported your ancestors to America. Before Independence, he, an English/Portuguese sea captain based in Bristol UK transported several loads of Scottish and Irish criminals to the American Colonies. Basically he sold the indentures of the skilled ones mainly in Pennsylvania and New York and the unskilled ones were sold off (for the length of their sentences) in the South.

Later in the period he and his sons shipped African slaves to America. He complained in his log that there was no money in unskilled white labour, but he got good money for the skilled criminals.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

One of my wife's ancestors may have transported your ancestors to America. Before Independence, he, an English/Portuguese sea captain based in Bristol UK transported several loads of Scottish and Irish criminals to the American Colonies. Basically he sold the indentures of the skilled ones mainly in Pennsylvania and New York and the unskilled ones were sold off (for the length of their sentences) in the South.

Later in the period he and his sons shipped African slaves to America. He complained in his log that there was no money in unskilled white labour, but he got good money for the skilled criminals.

One of my ancestors shipped Scottish brides to America, and another was a Puritan slaver who collected blacks from Senegal and brought them to Georgia when it became a slave colony. And William Cotton, yet another ancestor, is reputed to have brought the first slave to Virginia in 1619.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Spent the morning filling gaps for my ancestors. I'm so good at it, it oughta be a crime.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

After the Christmas revelry I found prolly 40 'new' ancestors to hang from the family tree, including several Calverts; none look to be Lords Baltimore, but the names are right for being close relatives.

Started the first 2014 story. It opens with a Quickie Mart associate fucking his overnite manager in the beer cooler as two poor young men steal several cartons of cigarettes, and a bum grabs 2 quarts of ICE HOUSE.

Watched Duck Dynasty for the first time. I'm not impressed. Its the Beverly Hillbillies a la 2013.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Worked on the genealogy today. Once you connect with a British monarch the rest is easy, cuz the Brits already did all the work. So mine goes back about 100 generations to Philip II of Macedonia, Alexanders daddy. I don't descend from Alexander, but one of daddys office staff. My granddaughters love the shit outta their descent from Cleopatra.

 

[patientlee]

Worked on the genealogy today. Once you connect with a British monarch the rest is easy, cuz the Brits already did all the work. So mine goes back about 100 generations to Philip II of Macedonia, Alexanders daddy. I don't descend from Alexander, but one of daddys office staff. My granddaughters love the shit outta their descent from Cleopatra.

You don't need to BE royalty. Just KNOW royalty. I have a wealthy friend. It's just fun being invited to her house once in a while.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

You don't need to BE royalty. Just KNOW royalty. I have a wealthy friend. It's just fun being invited to her house once in a while.

Sure. But its fun to watch people when they have no idea theyre around royalty. Or they know it and don't give a crap.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/adore-djatoka/resolver?rft_id=bh1108pnc002&svc.level=5&svc_id=info%3Alanl-repo%2Fsvc%2FgetRegion&svc_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajpeg2000&url_ver=Z39.88-2004

Found this old house today. Built about 1710 in Craven County NC (where I was born). Home of my 8th Great-grandparents, Farnifold and Hannah Green. Application has been made for a grant to restore it. Prolly the oldest existing house in NC.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Adam_Thoroughgood_House_by_Frances_Benjamin_Johnston.jpg

This is the Adam Thoroughgood House at Virginia Beach VA. Adam is another ancestor of mine. House built around 1719. Restored.