Hello again everyone!  As I sit in my motel room with time on my hands, I just felt like writing a bit more.  Nothing in particular.  I'm not able to work on our projects obviously, so I thought I would get some thoughts out.  Did you know that the Blogger dashboard has all kinds of interesting information on it.  It fascinates me!  How many people have looked at my blog ( I'm always looking at that one), what kind of browser was used, even what kind of operating system was used for all of the views.  I had no idea there were that many out there.  Heck, I'm just getting so that I'm comfortable with Linux (not a plug)!  All of this and more.  This little digital box even tells me where around the globe the views to my page came from.  That is sometimes hard to fathom.  If a web site can do that, just imagine what the NSA can do.  Eh, that's a story for another time.

There are people from all around the world looking at what Kitty and I do and what I write.  I think that is the coolest thing.  Thank you all, by the way.  There is one country I have been receiving a bit of traffic from that I feel I need to highlight a bit.  Portugal.  Hi guys!  The reason I want to talk about your country is that a few years ago, I discovered I have a fairly ancient link to you.  Ya'll (that's Missouri hick talk) might not think to much of it but I find it a bit fascinating.  A few years ago, a friend did some family tree research for me.  I was trying to find a Native American connection from my past, mainly because of old stories I had heard and also because of the looks of not only myself, but my mother and her father.  Well, it turns out my heritage is not Cherokee as I had believed.  I have Portuguese ancestry.  I guess there are similarities in the looks.  It turns out that an ancestor of mine back in the 1700's was a Portuguese sea captain that immigrated to the US.  His name was Isaac Pinto.  He happened to be Jewish also.  From what we uncovered, he was the first in this country to translate a Jewish prayer book from Hebrew into English.  We couldn't find anyone further back than this man, but I was fascinated by the discovery.

I know it's a trivial bit of information, but one that has fascinated me for several years now.  Just a quick note or request to anyone reading this from this country, if there is any slight chance you may have access to my history beyond this ancestor of mine, drop me a note.  I would love to hear about it!

Thanks everybody!

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