-=> 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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