A) So far, so good. My only complaint is that the text size increase/decrease (ctrl + mouse scroll wheel up/down) is backwards. That will take some getting used to. I really like the basic skin that comes with it, and I love the enhanced browsing history. It’s also supposedly much more memory efficient, so hopefully it won’t be as slow to wake up or quite so crashy.
B) The chairs I mentioned yesterday? The ones that sat upstairs, in the public area, for months and months? The ones that I was sure would sit in the SLIS hallway for more months and months? Gone. I’m glad I got a photo when I did, even if it was a crappy one.
C) Genealogy update:
I don’t know what got into me, but I started looking at my younger brothers’ father’s family. They’re no relation to me, but my brothers are, and they might be interested. Anyway, the Saxons? Apparently they were one of the first white families to settle in what later became Connorsville, Fayette County. Alexander Saxon arrived there in 1811, just a year or two after John Connor (brother of William Connor), the town’s namesake.
The family stayed in Fayette County until Herbert Saxon moved to Rush County. I haven’t yet figured out when that was. He was still there in 1920, according to the census.
And now I’m curious to go back and look at some of the old family photos that my brothers’ dad left at my mom’s. I may be able to put some of them into context, now.
And speaking of which! I found this photo a genealogy board. A woman had bought it from an eBay vendor who’d gotten it from an estate sale in Gulf Shores, Alabama. It has the names Robert and Joseph Saxon on the back. The guy on the left bears a scary resemblance to Herb. Actually to both Herbs II and III.
red paper boat 