Another smoke day

Not as bad a summer as a couple of years ago but the smoke is back with us again for a bit. The Air Quality is  69 at 7:30 a.m. Cleaning all accomplished and getting back to setting up the new computer. The desktop is uncluttered in this new Windows 11 but having to install all the apps that came with the last computer will take some time. But it is still a couple of months before Windows 10 is no longer supported and will convert that computer to Linux and just have the Windows 10 portion not connected to the Internet as I will use it as backup and my new computer does not have an active DVD drive although has a spot to add it but I do not use it a lot so will probably just use my DVDs on the old computer. Moving between computers will be good exercise and I will probably be able to get to work on the production of the material that I want to do for Edward's items as everything will be close at hand with the other computer - scanner especially as it is now hooked up permanently to the computer. 

Edward's niece's granddaughter is getting married and she was going to let us know so we could send a gift. So just waiting on that as I think it is very soon; did not know the date when she let me know last year. We sent another box of items (mostly her grandmothers) that would mean far more to her than my daughters as she grew up with her grandmother. I do not get a sense though that she is interested in genealogy and all the autosomal DNA that Edward did on his cousins and with our daughter's results as well it was interesting for him to prove the lines that he had already done the book research on. I was extracting the information for him into Excel but have not done that now for four years. There is just so much to do and it would be wonderful if at some point interest in that happens but everyone is busy with work just as he was - he did all this work after retirement. 

It is good that food is increasing into Gaza. Prayers continuing for both the children of Gaza and of Israel (both are trapped in a horrible spiral).The UN created Gaza totally dependent on them which was wrong - they should have been supplied with farming equipment so they could grow their own food three generations ago and still the UN does not do that (or if they did as I was a child then, the problem would then belong to Gaza for not proceeding as Israel did and create a country). Israel could help them with that as they have wonderful farms in Israel and it is basically the same land. Had the UN not been so apologetic towards them they would not have become so dependent on them. It was always a disaster waiting to happen in terms of setting up a country; allowing Hamas to come in and become their government was their mistake (Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis having declared that they want to annihilate Israel). What happened to the Palestinians in terms of land assignment was exactly the same as what happened to the Israelis. So why the difference? Letting those children remain in Gaza was a huge mistake after Hamas as the government of that area invaded Israel and why did the Muslims here not bring thousands of them over as only their DNA was needed? Questions I shall always have in my mind. But in the meantime children are suffering. 

So today continue setting up the computer and transferring my present working files so that I can get back to work perhaps in another week or so. The H11 Newsletter is due on the first of August but it will be just a short capture of anything that I find on H11 in the news and being one of the smallest haplogroups there will not likely be very much especially as a lot of the research was coming out of Russia and other places in Europe.

Tea drank, solitaire puzzles completed on the new computer as that was already ready to go when I first booted it up which was nice.