Our cuckoo clock hasn’t worked for many years. We bought it in Austria on our honeymoon 40 years ago. So we decided to replace it. New one comes this past week. Works great until midnight when the mechanism that stops the cuckooing failed. It just kept going. Pulled off the weight and tried to fix it the next day. Got it working until midnight last night and the same thing happened again. I need to take it to the clock guy this week. It’s only been on the wall 2 days.
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Or, is it proclaiming that there is, in fact, bupkis like it.
Is it trying to make up for the 40 years of missed cuckoos?
Hadn’t thought of that.
Admittedly my response was silly. However, my parents have had a cuckoo clock for decades. If it stopped in the middle of the night, the next morning my dad would have to go through all the cuckoos that it missed through the night to bring it up to current time.
Both happy/intrigued thoughts and annoyed thought.
Some of you may be aware that a Canadian court ruling makes Canadian citizenship by descent an option for folks with the necessary ancestry.
All of the clickbait reports in the US have focused on “parents and grandparents”.
Yesterday, some surfing caused me to realize that the commutative property of Canadian citizenship doesn’t stop two generations back.
One of my great-grandfathers and his parents were born in Ontario.
Today, after looking into what documentation is required to file for Canadian citizenship by descent, I dusted off an old Ancestry account I had helped my father and aunt set up, and went surfing…and surfed beyond that.
My great-grandfather was born before births may have been reliably recorded in Ontario. (Or, alternatively, I see some lags in reporting, and the family moved to Chicago shortly after he was born, so they might not have bothered.)
So, while I can find all sorts of official documents that list his birthplace as Ontario…there doesn’t seem to be any official record of their births in the various online indices…or in the registry books that can be thumbed through online… and the baptismal records from the most probable churches appear to have been lost in fires.
I did find a copy of the registration of my great-great-grandparents’ wedding, however, which shows their birthplace, and I can see them in copies of Canadian census records…
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I sensed some Canadian blood in you.
I was surprised you could not find your ancestors’ records as I had no trouble tracing my Canadian ancestors who fled the US after the American Revolution. The Brits were very good on record-keeping even before Canada became a Dominion. I am guessing that the records must have been destroyed as you surmised.
Had family over for Easter, might become a tradition.
Lots of prep beforehand.
Then, sone folks get the idea to help clean up. Where the annoy comes in.
Found several wooden-handled knives in the dishwasher. Found a wooden-handled mixing spatula in the dishwasher. Found a painted-on tumbler glass in, yes, the dishwasher.
People, just get TF out of my kitchen!!
OK, I feel better now.
We have the whole fam damily over every easter. 27lb turkey yesterday.
That being said, I’ve given up on the knives in the dishwasher thing. Nobody cares, nobody is going to start caring.
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Well, they are MY knives, so…
The dishwasher has not been run, so they are not going that far in "helping "…
I don’t mind a giant pile of dirties to sort through.
I hear you. I do all the post-feast kitchen cleanup as others just slow down the process.
On the other hand my wife had a few daughters helping in the preparation of today’s Easter dinner and it seemed to work well.
Oh well there’s the difference. I don’t do any cleanup, that’s left to my spouse and their twin. Which sounds misogynistic, until you know that if I tried to help, I wouldn’t be doing it right. best I just learn to deal with dings in the knives.
Somehow the tow hook cover on my front bumper is gone, so now there’s a hole in my front bumper. Just ordered one on eBay.
Lousy Smarch weather!!! 
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This spring has felt a lot more up and down than typical. It’s 80 degrees one day, 40 the next, and while this isn’t too uncommon to happen once in a while, it’s happened 4+ times already this year where I live. And next week’s forecast shows likely more of the same.
That’s how it’s been in Kansas, two weeks ago we got lows around 20, and 4-5 days later it hit 94°. Hopefully we are past that nonsense, it’s been nice this week with warm-ish days and cool nights.
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My spouse is a corporate trainer for employees, taking classes of students for durations of time.
Two of their current students, one is from Iran and one from a country that traditionally hates Iran. The Iranian has a dead family member from the attack on Iran.
My partner caught them making a couple of snippy comments to each other, but it’s just now coming out that they’ve been carrying on over Slack, calling each other murderers and such, and now they’ve gotten more of the class in on it, creating “secret” Slack chatrooms on work property to talk shit about each other.
How the f**k does that need to be a work topic? OK, they’re from another country, now DO. YOUR. JOBS. or the job can go away. Neither of them is involved with their country’s military or political power.
Mind you, these people are full-ass adults, all working from home, so it’s not like they have to deal with their cubicle neighbor day in, day out. Just click away and move on, report to HR if needed.
Edit: I know Partner’s high-up boss joined in on the meeting, and I’m hearing from that office, "…Any kind of political talk that even borders on racism or sexism or anything like that is not appropriate at work, full stop. Now HR is joining in, and there could be firings, except they got more people pulled into their BS
Update: One of the 2 most involved people was found to have been sending unwanted, sexually-explicit messages to a coworker over Slack. How do these people not understand that Slack isn’t your personal diary?
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So, they are as American as anyone else.
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I am assuming that got them fired?