I had a hard time getting started this morning. I awoke at the usual time, but it took a long time to read my chapter in Das Buch Mormon since I kept falling back to sleep, even though I was sitting up. Once I did get up and start moving I did OK.
After talking with my Sweetheart I decided to combine my trips to the Post Office and to the temple, and to put off doing laundry. The day was chilly but sunny, and the navigator on my phone showed a post office about half a mile away. The reason for my trip there was to mail a birthday card which, it turned out, I had correctly estimated was a bit over the one-stamp weight limit. I figured that after my Thanksgiving meal yesterday, a little extra walking would be a good thing.
I decided to take a less-direct route to the temple, and just sauntered along, stopping to read a few historical markers as I noticed them. I have driven on most of the streets I walked, but there is a whole different level of learning that occurs when not whizzing by. I doubt I will go to any of the stores I passed, but it is nice to know where the theaters are located, including the new one, and I found a couple of interesting-looking stores.
As it happened, the temple was not open today, so I just went back to the apartment, and got my clothes to the laundromat.
Most of the rest of the day I spent on family history research and on studying for my next Level of learning at the Library. I focused today on German script, taking a three-episode handwriting course, and enjoying a BYU script tutorial that features quick quizzes, and pretty immediate feedback. I could easily spend lots of time on that! A better use of my time, though, will be to go back to index German records. The US Marriage records project is pretty well complete, apparently, since I often get the "there is no work available for this project" screen when I try to index or arbitrate. I learned some things in both the handwriting course and the tutorial which will help in indexing and in my own research.
The research I did today was actually in looking for the parents of a wife of my grand-uncle. I knew they had to be found somewhere in the United States Census records for 1900 and 1910, since there children were born in Wisconsin, and they died after 1910. The computer program apparently was not recognizing the father until I searched with the mother's name--then it got the 1910 census as a hit. But the 1900 census did not come up until I searched with the wife's name as the principal, and the daughter as an additional person. That gave me both census records to glean info from. I have not yet entered their data, as I decided I should really get busy on the language course. Even though I get two hours a week at the Library to study, it is hard to do a course which is lecture based in that environment.
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