Karl's website slowly but surely making it's way to completion. I still have a bunch of images to make web friendly but the main part is up. Gohere.

by request, i blog right now:

web design is hard! i'm working on Karl's site for him, so that he can have something to show his portfolio with on the web. i may have to call david in to make what i design go ON TO the internet. right now it's a mystery. otherwise, it's looking good. i hope he'll like it.

Out of curiosity, I googled a friend of mine Andrew Garrett from Kansas, since he was in the marines when I left and might be involved in the Iraq thing. Here is what I found:

"K-Dog, a bottle-nose dolphin belonging to Commander Task Unit trains with Sgt. Andrew Garrett in the Arabian Gulf. These units are working to ensure shipping lanes are clear of mines for humanitarian relief."


"Aboard USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44), Marine Corps Sgt. Andrew Garrett (right), Sgt. Jon Hooge and Staff Sgt. Justin Roberts (left) prepare "pingers" used by bottle-nosed dolphins to locate man-made objects on the sea floor."

David finding his ancestor at Ellis Island made me want to find out more about mine. Unforunately I am stuck with Abraham Casada b. 1750 or 60 in North Carolina. I can't get any further back than that. Though I learned a lot about some of my ancestors. Like Lewis Cassada b. 1823 was a member of the 12th Kentucky Infantry in the Civil War as a private. His father was named Issac Newton Casada, son of Abraham.

( the Bible was definitely the first baby name book)

My dad always talks crap about Kentucky, being from Indiana, and I informed him two days ago that his family spent over 100 years in Wayne Co., KY. He asked me why I had called and was harrassing him. :)

Abraham is still a mystery to me (and a lot of other people who have decended from him). We want to know where his parents are, what country they were from. I always took for granted that we were Irish, but the evidence in slim as to where we actually came from. Does it matter? Yeah a little bit.