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Took me ages to finish my latest book. Partly because I couldn't get into it and partly because I was working on ancestry.com. Jeffrey Deaver's "The Lesson of Her Death" is an old novel of his and not one of his Lincoln Rhyme's stories. It isn't really that it wasn't a good book; I just find that I'm feeling less moved by murder mysteries. This murder happened in a small town and it involved a college coed. She was found strangled and raped. The suspects were all over the place. Was it a professor or a local youth? Was it a cult killing? More deaths take place and finally it wraps up.

Uploaded my ancestry research onto the ancestry.com website and decided to add all the old family pictures that I have sitting in 7 albums in a trunk. Why keep them to myself when others can benefit from them. Lots of people are scuffing them up so it's a good thing. I figure I'll keep my subscription active for a couple weeks then cut it off again. Did meet (online) a wife of a distant cousin who lives locally and we've decided we'll do a cemetery walk in my home town and check out her husband's and my ancestors. I do find it interesting to read all the different names and places that my ancestors have come from.

Managed to get 6 days off. Asked for last Friday off as a vacation day and then asked off for Saturday and Sunday (Mother's Day). Was scheduled for work yesterday and scheduled off Tuesday and Wednesday. Decided that Monday was a good day to take a personal day and ended up with the time off. It's been great and much needed. Still have a week and a half of vacation to use up before the beginning of September. We can't decide what to do.