-=> Quoting MILES MAXTED to NANCY BACKUS on 04 Oct 10  14:12:28 <=-

 MM> These last three days have seemed very Springy,  ending 6 months of
 MM> wet misery that culminated in an Australia-sized storm escapee from the
 MM> Roaring Forties, plus an on-going force 7 earthquake in Christchurch
 MM> that started a month ago and marked the 28th day with two force 5
 MM> aftershocks last night...
 MM> Apart from all that,  things are good....
 
Ach!  I had heard about the quake when it first happened, but it's
slipped off our news some time ago... Extreme weather, indeed.  I think
I'll be even less inclined to grumble about our inclemencies... ;) 
We've been getting fall rains lately, temps in the 50's, mostly grey
skies... but at least we get some sun every so often, and the earth
doesn't shake...  We're supposed to have sun and temps in the 60's by
the weekend, even...  We'll see...  

 -> Nothing new on the genealogy front, though...  :(

 MM> Mmmm ... I've set up some Google alerts that report any 'net mentions
 MM> of Maxted, Mexted, Maxsted, Maxstead, etc., etc.

 MM> This produces a lot of trivia and intrigue - and the occasional
 MM> nugget; yesterday's alerts revealed the 1880's existence of a parallel
 MM> family ancestor named Robert Maxted, butcher, in the High Street of
 MM> Ramsgate - matching my Robert Maxted, butcher, in the High Steet of
 MM> Margate, geographically a hop and a skip away on the coast of Kent,
 MM> England. 
 MM> There'll be a connection linking the two lurking somewhere...

That will be a fun thing to find... :)  Probably cousins...?  Or are the
dates such that they could be in the same line?

 MM> Might you try setting some Google alerts for your sought-afters ?

I'm not that connected to the I'net.  Other than telnet and email, I
hardly do anything on the net, and what I do is all text-based... dunno
if I even could set up Google alerts with my system.

 -> I see you are posting from Doc's...  what's up with your bbs down there?

 MM> The BBSS is fine;  the old, beloved laptop that was dedicated to
 MM> dialling it up over the local telephone network gunged its hard drive, 
 MM> and I haven't managed to resuscitate it so far...
 
Ah.  Makes sense...  I'm glad another bbs didn't bite the dust... hope
you can resuscitate your laptop...  But it's nice to see you on Doc's,
too (that's a backup bbs for me, too).

 -> ... A wok is what you throw at a wabbit.

 MM> Weally ?  

Yup.   

ttyl        neb

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