I stopped at the grocery store on my way home yesterday, against my better judgment. I hate the milk-toilet paper-bread buying frenzy that possesses everyone when a storm hits. But, I needed cat litter, and I figured, if I was going to stop, I should pick up some veggies and rice, too. I wandered through the juice aisle, thinking I’d pick up some V8, when I got distracted by the cranberry juice. I suddenly remembered that I had half a bottle of sour apple vodka at home, and if you can’t drink during an ice storm, when can you drink?
After spending all day test driving GEDCOM-to-HTML converters, I’m completely brain dead, and thankful for my foresight in buying mixer. Aaah! I’m pretty sure that I’ve never, ever had such a damnfine tasty beverage.
As for the GEDCOM-to-HTML converters, ugh. I didn’t find one I liked well enough to fork over money for, and the free ones I tried didn’t make me happy, so I ended up back where I originally started. After making a few spelling corrections and fixing and adding information that some very kind relatives in Ireland sent me, I settled for just exporting the family tree directly from the database I use. I’m not in love with the format of the web pages it creates, but until I find something I like better, I guess that’s what I’ll use. If nothing else, I can be reasonably sure that it won’t convert living flags to dead (oops!). There’s nothing quite like prematurely killing off one’s relatives, eh?
Oh, and it’s still icy out, and not in a remotely pretty way, so I didn’t even try to go out and take photos. I think what that means is that there will be no PotD today.
Oh, andalsotoo! I did get to see the eclipse the other night! The sky cleared up very nicely. It was absolutely beautiful. Harriet wussed out on me after about 15 minutes, so she spent the rest of the time standing inside the patio door, staring disgustedly at me. I think she was convinced that I was up to No Good.
red paper boat 