4 17 pm pdt [ bits and bobs ]

Will you do me a favor? I need help reading this. I think it says:

Stepbrother: Georg Reiwer
30S St. Bowery. Oshkosch, Wisc
do [as in you "do" have a relative you are going to stay with]

Cousin do
Georg Reisner 30 S St. Bowen St.

The important item is the last name. What do you think it is?

Georg R???????

If the person who filled out that ship's manifest knew I'd be squinting at it 99 years later, they probably would have written more clearly.

I have been having unpleasant abdominal pains lately which are making me grumpy on a continual basis. Matthew played cards with me last night to cheer me up. Today he called me to let me know he got a raise. It was exactly the amount he had conservatively estimated. We made a budget for our future which didn't take that extra money into account, but it will all go towards Matthew's dream of buying a new BMW.

We haven't heard about the apartment we want. I am beginning to fret.

This morning I woke up to dinky sounding music and a intermittent buzzing sound. I realized it was the cell phone by my bed and I rushed to answer it. You see, yesterday Matthew and I found a new model cell phone in the middle of the street during the rain. We blocked traffic so I could grab it and I was relieved to see it was still on (and no one had run over it). But all evening we got no call. We left a message with the listing for "home" in the address book, but I was beginning to doubt. Today an older gentleman called his phone and was relieved to know I had it. He was visiting from BC and he was very grateful when he came by to pick it up this morning.

In other news, I've updated: