A good working day

I had a good working day yesterday as I cleaned the basement and then worked on the Chromosome 2 matches. Half of the crossover points were proven and almost half of the matches reviewed. It was a very clean process with only two of the matches placed into the "too small" file. No changes in the grandparent line which is always good news. A couple of question marks removed because what was thought became obvious with the passage of years. Some of these matches have not been looked at for five years when I last phased the grandparents and likely some of them were not regarded back then but rather much much earlier when the trek to phasing began back in perhaps 2014 I was first thinking about that as the matches flowed in. 

I did not work on much else all day but did get in lots of exercise but still working my way back to the level that I was at. It will be a slow progress forward so as not to antagonize the system to any great degree. Just a little stronger every day as I lift weights, run, do yoga/calisthenics, and walk. The walking is, I think, the best exercise and outside would be great but at minus 4 I am probably not going to do a lot of that mostly because of ice. There is no real point in breaking a leg at this time of my life if it can be avoided. I do have osteoporosis although I only ever had the one baseline test way back when I was 72 years of age. I just have never been able to book an appointment since. No idea why. I did all the right things I think but now you have to go to the Annex rather than the Clinic which is fine but it restricts when I would be going as I do not drive that far on my own anymore. That was my promise to me when I got my license renewed. I just needed to buy my groceries (which can be delivered, all of the supermarkets deliver these days). When the train goes in I can go to the doctor, if that need ever arises, quite easily although the bus would take me there as well. I generally have gone once a year but may change that to every few years which will probably get me removed from their rolls. I have no idea but I haven't seen my own doctor for a few years now and I spent enough time with young doctors already in my past working years. I just want my blood tested and then a full report on the blood work by email (I subscribe to the Lab results anyway but anything hidden to me (and I have no idea why they would do that really it seems childish) I need to have sent to me by the doctor. They do not have to call me; I could call but my interest level is low in that regard to be honest as I am sure their phones are very busy and I do not want to add to that. One interesting thought is the therapist at the Physio who mentioned he would like to have as part of his practice a physician who specializes in athletic medicine. That would be great actually. I must watch for that; I had forgotten just popped into my brain. Funny how things pop into your brain on occasion from the past. 

So today more work on the matches. It is time to backup my computer once again and will get that done as well. The new computer is doing very well. I have maintained the old files on backup but also on the old computer which is not connected to the internet because it is Windows 10. Eventually we will convert it to Linux but no rush. It is my sort of mainframe permanent storage of files which includes my husband's work. But what he said to me the last time we chatted about his genealogy work was that he had published what he wanted to publish and I have tried to keep that in my mind that he was finished with it and had wrapped up all the presentations and trips and given them to the organizations involved. I myself handed them over for him because he was too ill at that time. I know very little about the Kipp family although in terms of the past I did a lot of lookups for him but that material just sits there on the edge occasionally a memory will come back for whatever reason but for the most part I can not add anything to his work other than the yDNA work which I always did anyway. His interest didn't really lie there but I pointed out to him that the autosomal was proving his tree whilst the matches flowed in to his test accounts and he asked me to collect them for him and give him a file once a month so I did that but have not done it since he passed. I should look at them but again I would not do anything with them. They wait for a family member to express an interest in being involved at which point I can pass the information to them. My daughters have no interest in genealogy; it robbed them of their father as it consumed him but they joined him collecting information that he wanted just to continue being close to him as children. But they have had their fill of genealogy. 

Who would have ever guessed that it would consume me in my old age. Amazing really as I had planned my old age sort of and it consisted of knitting, crocheting, smocking and all of those fun activities that I did spend time on when my girls were young (I was going to send it north to the First Nations as my grandmother had done and a lot of my training in these arts was my grandmother patiently teaching this child who could  never keep still for more than a moment in time). The girls loved their smocked dresses and the other clothes I sewed but they also love shopping like their Dad. It was our time together when they were young - planning each outfit. I especially remember my youngest when I was making her Christmas dress one year. She was eight years of age and wanted a black and white dress. So we bought the satin and the velvet and made a beautiful dress to her design. It was probably one of the last dresses that I made because work became so much busier and time passed and she discovered shopping and loved that too.  

 Drinking tea and I hard boiled eggs for lunch - egg salad sandwich instead of my favourite peanut butter today. Solitaire puzzles to complete and on to the day of matches.