Frances saw what you did there.
Month: April 2016
Stay Confusing, Comcast
The progress bar shows more than half my April allotment has already been used, but I’m only at 15GB out of my theoretical (though never in the 9 years I’ve been a customer enforced) 250GB/month data cap.
Also upload and download speed is 0. But actual speeds vary and are not guaranteed, thankfully, because that’s just nonsense.
Look Who’s Sitting
The meds must be helping, because Frances has been sitting for short periods today. With her nose up in the air, of course, because that’s how she rolls.
If you have a pet on a cocktail of medications that are given at different times, I strongly recommend making up a check sheet. This makes it easy to tell at a glance whether or not you remembered to give them their meds.
Little Miss Muffet
Frances went to the vet today. I was really hoping that we’d get to her spring check-up without her having any issues, but that’s just not how she rolls. She tweaked something in her back end last Tuesday. I came home from work and she could barely walk. I thought it was her knees, and they’re clearly sore, but after giving her a thorough physical and neurological exam and taking X-rays (to rule out compressed or ruptured discs), the vet thinks she’s pulled her iliopsoas.
But it’s also her knees. And it’s also the arthritis in her spine. And it’s also a disc that looks like it’s slightly compressed. She’s got a cocktail of things that, mixed together, have made her a very, very sad petunia.
The good news is that it’s not cancer! Bed rest and meds will hopefully have her feeling better soon, though with an injury like this, the recovery time is usually at least 6 weeks. And that’s in a young dog. Oldladydogs take longer to heal.
She’s permanently barred from getting on the furniture, which makes me sad, but I suspect she injured herself jumping off the couch to yell at dogs walking by the patio. I’m also going to have to put up a visual barrier along the bottom of the patio windows, to keep her from getting agitated at every single thing she sees.
For now, though, she’s spending a lot of time on her tuffet.
Beached Seal
I don’t understand the appeal of letting your head head off the end of the bed, but apparently it’s comfortable.
An Art
You Have Not Yet Become
gluebook collage
Poverty Relief Loans
Today’s trawl: Ireland, Poverty Relief Loans 1821-1874 at FindMyPast.
Each loan contains three names. The first is the borrower’s, along with their occupation and townland (men over 21 years old and widowed women only, as married women were ineligible). The second and third names are the names, occupations, and townlands of the witnesses/guarantors. The loans were overseen by the Clerk of the Trustees for the Encouragement of Industry, which makes me laugh for some reason.
Loan 243 was to my great-great-great grandfather, Michael. Repayment information is on the right-hand page. I’m actually kind of shocked at how many of these loans were paid off. Considering the time period and the level of poverty in County Mayo, I would have thought there would be more defaulters.
FindMyPast, “Ireland, Poverty Relief Loans 1821-1874,” database and images, FindMyPast (www.findmypast.com/ : accessed 2 Apr 2016); Loan number 243 to Mich’l Baskquil 3 Apr 1839;
[number] 243, “Three months after date, we jointly and severally promise to pay to Mr. William Larminie, Clerk of the Trustees for the Encouragement of Industry in the County of Mayo, the sum of Two Pounds — Shillings sterling, with Interest, at the rate of Five per cent. value receied by us at Castlebar this 3rd day of April 1839. [signed] Mich’l Baskquil Farmer Ayle [witnesses] Walter Joyce Farmer Cappaharnane, Anthy Ludden Farmer Cappaharnane”
Hanoria Gibbons v. Michael Basquil
Irish Petty Sessions, Westport, County Mayo
Hanoria Gibbons of Cappahornan v. Michael Basquil of Ayle
“Assaulting her on Monday the 22nd day of May 1843”
Michael was Walter’s father and my great-great-great grandfather. This was not his shining moment, I think.
If you have Irish ancestors and you have a FindMyPast subscription, I strongly recommend looking through the Irish Petty Sessions record set. It’s occasionally sad, but often quite entertaining.
red paper boat 