Flominator

Started out as another sleepy day without energy and a terrible frozen pizza for lunch. But then

• did a small #DIY thing (treating a quite freshly drywall corner with sandpaper, which also turned out to require a bit of filling)
• cleaned the bathroom (since I had to shower afterwards anyway)
• did some coding for #WikiTreeBEE in the drying break (Belgian categories in #WikiTree from #Wikipedia/ #Wikidata)

#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings

#3GoodThings for Saturday:

• one of two very wanted packages arrived, the other one was finally sent at least
• accidentally did way too much coding for the browser extension #WikiTreeBEE (follow @WikiTreeExtensions@genealysis.social for updates)
• was pushed out of my #diy comfort zone by my wife at 8:30 PM: we did a line of 1.5 meters of silicone to fill a gap between two pieces of wood, with me mainly pushing and her mainly aiming (a bit like in the Transformer movie - "you shoot, I drive"; I'm usually pretty anxious about having to do such things with hands, but together it was really nice towards the end

#ThreeGoodThings

• found the Ibuprofen for my headache without needing to wake up my wife
• surprise phone call from Dad's cousin with some stories
• did a bit of coding for the #WikiTreeBEE browser extension

#ThreeGoodThings #3GoodThings

belated #3GoodThings for yesterday

• next iteration of potatoes in #airfryer was a lot better (bigger pieces)
• quality time with my favorite person
• working from home, as opposed to Monday being my usual office day

#threeGoodThings

Belated #3GoodThings for Saturday:

• There were only five broken pineapple pieces left for me to eat, which made me spend the better part of the night in front of the toilet. Could have been worse. Note to self: they say "consume before" instead of "best before" for a reason!
• I won't tell you.
• Still having to consume most of the stuff that was in the dying freezer, therefore less options and more determination about lunch. I like it! Today: fish fingers and half a box of peas. I was a little worried that this box of fish fingers did not mention air fryers, yet, as opposed to the others. But they didn't cause any problems in the next 20 hours.

#ThreeGoodThings

• potato experiment in the #airfryer (thank you, to those who replied) has the potential to become something I could do regularly while working
• managed to have #Gelbi bathed
• postponing shower to the next day reduced the stress about remaining chores a tiny bit compared to a usual Sunday (sigh)

#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings

There is one I won't tell you about, but I've still found #3GoodThings for yesterday:

• a bit more energy than on the previews Saturdays
• managed to clean up the old #WikiTree profile of my great-grandfather Joseph #Zähringer https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Z%C3%A4hringer-31
• wrote an email to our local adult education center ( #Volkshochschule), asking them, if they are as democracy supporting as they claim and would post on #Mastodon (additionally to Meta platforms)

#ThreeGoodThings

Trotz Juli-Urlaubspause bei @funfacts wurden in den letzten Tagen zwei Fokus-Folgen veröffentlicht, in denen Betroffene zu Wort kommen, um ihre Sicht der Dinge darzulegen. #BurakYilmaz erklärt in https://tube.funfacts.de/w/8tMiXEJAgoS2FVNUPF5xme #Kurdistan, während #TahsinMirza in https://tube.funfacts.de/w/fcXBsvykDk5bKZUjwQyuuY von seiner Flucht und dem Leben danach in Deutschland berichtet. Beides hat meinen Horizont erweitert, danke dafür!

#FunFacts #WirSchaffenDas #Flüchtlinge

Today's (quite belated) #grandma recording mainly talked again about her aunt Sophie https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-54, for whom grandma was working during her mandatory social year, when Sophie learned that her husband had died in #WorldWar2 in August 1944. It completely crushed her aunt: She cried for the whole winter. Grandma still got furious about her, when she told me about those days. Grandma got worried about getting married herself one day. She swore herself, that she won't react like this, should she ever be in Sophie's situation. On a previous recording, she had already told me, that grandma didn't, when her husband passed away as well.

Even before the death of her husband, Sophie didn't have it easy. Their marriage apparently was annulled and they had to redo it two years later, because somebody had figured out about their blood-relationship. Before getting married with that husband, she was engaged to somebody, who lost his live a few days before the wedding.

Another story from today's recording, another recurring one, was the one of grandma's spinning wheel, which somehow ended up in the home of her sister, even though that one "didn't know how to spin ... or to swim .. and a driver's license, she also never had."

Since the next recording turned out to be only myself summarizing a phone call I had with her, this recording concludes January 2023. The last January of her life. 380 recordings done, 120 to go.

#genealogy #wool #spinning

I completed transcribing the almost 1 hour long #grandma recording today. One part contained her telling that she saw St. Petersburg (Russia), Finland, Sweden,, Norway, England, Scotland and France and that she is happy, with what she saw during her life (and with her life in general, despite all the hardships). It's always inspiring to be able to listen to that. I hope, I will be able to take a bit of that optimism with me, for when I'm older.

#genealogy

Für Sie getestet: Bei #Rossmann bestellte Ware löst nach dem Auspacken im Laden den Diebstahl-Alarm an der Türe aus

#Servicetoot

- re-heating #Käsespätzle in a pan instead of the microwave is a game changer (even if the microwave has #Panacrunch!)
- threw some laws and a court decision at an institution which doesn't want to give me documents about my ancestors
- saw the dispensation from church for great-grandparents' wedding: justification for marrying their second cousin was "small place" and "woman is rather old"

#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #genealogy

Belated #3GoodThings:
- started a political discussion with a younger person that might turn interesting in the next days
- found a source that kind of proves the origin of my 9th great-grandmother Maria Bank https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bank-311, which allowed me to create her father and also connect that one to her brother Gallus Bank, my 8h great-grandfather on another line
- had an unexpected encounter with an old friend

Bonus: Schnitzel with napkin dumplings at the company restaurant was good.

#ThreeGoodThings #Genealogy #WikiTree

- I won't tell you
- Käsespätzle
- Managed to do all the tasks I wanted

#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings

Zum #DigitalIndependenceDay am Sonntag habe ich heute endlich den Browser "im Büro" auf #Ecosia als Standardsuchmaschine umgestellt. Für Notfälle habe ich immer noch "#Google ohne KI" hinter einem Schlüsselwort hinterlegt, aber der Großteil der Anfragen ist sicher auch problemlos über Ecosia möglich. Privat nutze ich Ecosia schon lange, greife in Härtefällen aber immer wieder auf Google zurück. Zudem ist #GoogleBooks gefühlt alternativlos (wenn auch teilweise im @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org gespiegelt). Was nutzt ihr so zum Suchen?

#diday #did #dit #gutgemacht #didit

- a former work colleague returned to the company after working somewhere else for six years
- saw documentation of dispensation my great-grandparents received when they got married in 1926 as second cousins: it was justified with them living in a small place and advanced age for marriage - she was 31, he was 39.
- me and my imaginary dog didn't get as wet on our evening walk as we did yesterday

#ThreeGoodThings #3GoodThings #genealogy

Dear @bsky.brid.gy, please tell the #WirVerlassenX folks over there to follow you, so we can read them over here as well.

Yet another very belated #grandma recording. Key take-away is probably, that she told the story, on how her dad hit someone with a garden fence post (probably a drunken fight that got out of control) and that one lost his eye/sight. Then grandma says, that she told her sister, that children often pay for their parents' sins. Grandma had sight problems for more than the last decade of her life …

#genealogy

Today, the #grandma recordings were a real struggle, I'm tired and sweating, my neck itches from small hairs after having my hair cut some minutes ago. The first record was only three minutes and not particularly special. The second one revisited the story of Kunigunde #Schindler's revolver (see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schindler-1413#Revolver for details). I stopped after the mandatory about 100 lines, because the second recording is almost an hour long. Let's hope next week gets better again.

Edit: Probably, wanting to continue watching #MoneyHeist didn't help either 😉

#genealogy

Today's belated #grandma recording contained the first mention grandma's grandma's photo album. She said, it's still in family possession, but when I asked the relative, whose mother reportedly still had it, he told me, that there is no album that matches the description. What a pity, because it apparently contained the only photo of painter Frank #Buchser, the reported father of grandma's grandma. It would have been a tiny bit of proof rather than stories and love letters, that were burnt out of respect for he dead. 😭
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Buchser-5

#genealogy

"macht Schluss … mit dem ganzen Judenkram! Einmal muss Ende sein!" (34:00)

#Doku zu bzw. Interview mit Nazi-Jägerin Beate #Klarsfeld, die 1968 Bundeskazler Kurt Georg #Kiesinger eine Ohrfeige für seine NS-Vergangenheit verpasst hat, und für die eben nicht Schluss war!

https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/zeuge-der-zeit/beate-klarsfeld-die-nazijaegerin/ard-alpha/Y3JpZDovL2JyLmRlL2Jyb2FkY2FzdC9GMjAyNFdPMDAwODYwQTA

#Nazis #NieWieder #BayernAlpha #ARDmediathek

I really really enjoyed the first two seasons of #XOKitty in the last days, but so far #XOKittySaison3 is really annoying with so many "villains" and difficult situations. It feels like the show lost something. It's still far from the train wreck of #SexEducation season 4, but still a bit annoying to watch at times.

#3GoodThings for Saturday:

• Bringing out the trash somehow turned to a quite long round of cutting branches to make snow removal a lot easier in a few months. Also, one can walk the stairs again without twisting to avoid being slapped by plant parts.
• nice walk with my wife to deliver a present for a former school-mate of our kid and to do some shopping
• huge progress on emails for this week

Bonus: Watching the water rapidly run down the cleaned sink sustainably increased the fun of brushing teeth and washing myself.

#ThreeGoodThings

@todayilearned@noc.social There's also a pretty catchy #Sabaton song about this battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwfJsKfCnaM&list=RDBwfJsKfCnaM

Belated #3GoodThings for Wednesday:

• starting to get a bit of energy back, which allowed me to process a lot from my physical inbox (#GettingThingsDone)
• after several rounds of @WikiTree_Stammtisch@genealogie.social, that were rather difficult for me, we had a good flow and good talks yesterday
• I will definitely not tell you!

#ThreeGoodThings

Kommen im Rest von Deutschland die meisten #Bio-Molkereiprodukte eigentlich auch aus Österreich?

Kennt jemand ein Deo-Produkt für Männer, das vergleichsweise lange hält, keine Bestandteile aus schwarzem Plastik enthält (weil nicht recyclebar) und vielleicht sogar ein wenig #nachhaltig ist?

#FediHilfe #Kosmetik