marble and granite

Cyn and I visit her fathers's grave today. There were quite a few graves at that cemetary, of people who had given their lives for their country.

Then we stopped at another big cemetery. It is very old, with graves dating back to when Milwaukee was founded, and Wisconsin was granted statehood. We found one grave of a man born in the 1700's. Okay, I know that's nothing for you Europeans, and even some of you New Englanders, but for here, that's pretty impressive.

Of course, I didn't have my camera along. We're going to go back soon.

At one point, we pulled over and got out. It was quite a scene. We stood at the base of a small hill. there was a big dead tree standing partway up. On the top was a life-sized green bronze angel, high upon a monument. Behind her were the dark blue clouds of an approaching storm. Just as we started up, the wind whipped up, and the temperature dropped. It was a bit surreal. We couldn't help but grin.

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virus warning

Our sysadmin is shutting down our e-mail. He almost never does that. Here's what he said.

A new virus W32.Vote.A@MM is going around today. It's a nasty one and spreading fast. Symantec does not have a virus definition posted yet so I'm shutting down the Lotus Notes email server at 3:20PM until I can apply the latest fix. It's coming through Outlook. If you see any mail with the subject Fwd: Peace BeTweeN AmeriCa and IsLam, Delete it !

report cards

If anyone wants to e-mail me their kindergarten (or so) report cards, I can post them, and everyone can try to guess whose they are.