Yesterday was incredibly busy but the cleaning did all get accomplished. I also worked away on the matches although stymied by one that is a Pincombe match likely but does not include one of the siblings that it should so a bit perplexing and working on the crossover points for Chromosome 9. Chromosome 9 is interesting as it has huge lengths of Blake and Pincombe as well as Rawlings distributed amongst the five siblings. It has the matches to go with that but the individual that I am working on at the moment has not tested anywhere else in the myriad of testing sites that have been used. So a little more in depth look at the results - I have to be wary that this large match could be a product of two lines and that will be the reason for looking at the cross over points.
The day flew by quickly and one of the large Christmas Cactus plants is going to have to go, it has some root in the stem and I already have a second one (Edward actually said to throw them out a while before he passed away but they had been here so long I did think I would try to keep them). But we will plant it in the garden for the summer and the winter will take it away as it is not meant for minus 20 or greater. We still also have the three orchids which were his pride and joy for sure. He loved getting them to flower and amazingly we have followed his method (he repeated it to me many many times) and when they flower it is a joy to us in memory of him.
A walk and kayak at Petri Island Beach completed the day and it was a perfect day for such a walk. The kayaking was also good and it was nice for my daughter as her life is very busy with research at the moment. We chat about AI sometimes when she is not working as that has become a focus of hers; utilizing it that is so that one gets all the benefits but controls the methodology to offset the tendency towards error that exists when AI is not carefully managed. She is a professor though primarily and chats with her research partners and students on their combined research all summer long; she also does love research. She did try to get a job in Canada when she completed her PhD but it was not to be at that time but once again she will try to get a job here as I am getting much older and a fall down the stairs has perhaps alarmed her a little although I was not injured. I now wear shoes as I slipped in my socks on the stair but grabbed the railing and saved myself but I was alone.
So another day of moving the matches into my databases as I move forward towards re-phasing my grandparents. The endogamy results have been very handy - I knew more or less where it was likely but I have found a couple of new spots which were good to find.
I must also work on my driver's license renewal. I am totally confused by the renewing of the license plates as I did that when I renewed my license last time but did not get any paperwork on that so will check on that as it is renewal time again. My license was only renewed for two years last time as I am 80 this year. You do not pay for the car license; actually I liked to pay so that I got all the paperwork. Anyway I guess it was a nice treat for most people.
I also want to get into the two binders of gravestone images that Edward created. They have all been scanned so it would be easy to put them into an *.pdf and publish it under a Creative Commons License but I realized that the actual pictures do not contain the information on location but the indexes where they are located probably does. Anyway we will see how I do with that. Too much to do for sure but it does keep one busy.
Breakfast completed, two sets of exercises completed and I am waiting for the repair person as the parts for the washing machine have come in. The City is busy upgrading the hydro lines and transformers and there is one just one door down. I noticed a sign at the end of my laneway so let the repair person know. Fortunately they did not block my laneway. Apparently he/she is still coming. Nowadays one doesn't know if the person coming is male or female as so many woman have gone into the trades now. Women should construct washing machines and the like - I am sure they would do great work.
Solitaire puzzles completed. Back to work.