Category Archives: Doctor Who

Party and Programming

Categories: Accountability, David Tennant, Doctor Who, FFF Database, Genealogy, Genealogy Wiki, UJGS, Web Site Development
Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 31 seconds

Went to Rochelle’s 60th birthday party. Alan and Andalin showed up eventually, so there were other people I knew. Had fun anyways.

Still working on my new FFF web site. Should be working for clients. Not prepared to go to the FHL today so will now plan to watch WDYTYA tonight and go downtown on Saturday. Must get some client organizing done for that.

Also, need to get back in touch with John, web site development client. It’s been since early in my cold that I last contacted him. I will need to do a lot of custom programming for his site, and integrating WordPress into it. I need to give him a rough estimate of the time/costs but haven’t even begun to think about that. I hate trying to estimate time; I suck at it.

Must still write a blog entry about the UJGS meeting.

Katie reminded me of Script Frenzy; I’d already gotten an email about it. I can’t think of anything to write except for something about David Tennant. What else is on my mind? But I wouldn’t know what to write. I’m a songwriter; I write vignettes. I can take five seconds of emotions and turn it into a four minute song, but I’m not loaded with complete stories. The NaNoWriMo novels are difficult enough. The only script I could think to write right now would be the Doctor Who episode I’ve been mulling over in my head, but it has no story. I’ve got a new companion and how they meet, lots of other details about her that would be revealed over time, and nothing else. That would make for a short script.

Hello World.

Categories: David Tennant, Doctor Who, Genealogy, Home Improvement, Hugh Laurie, IAJGS, UJGS
Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 51 seconds
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Welcome to my blog. I am Banai. That’s pronounced like B’nai Brith, or B’nai Israel, or B’nai Torah, or if you haven’t heard of any of those or don’t know of any synagogues with those names, it rhymes with Renee.

I have been a genealogist since birth, but I got serious in 1998, moved to Salt Lake City in 2003, and soon became a professional.

I had been debating starting a blog for years. What would I write? Would anyone read it? Would I make the time to keep it up? What would I call it?

Well, the last question was answered first. I came up with the title somewhere in the middle of watching British TV shows last year. Even more recently (like, while editing this post) I added on the third word of my title, from the Ginger Jew to the Ginger Jewish Genealogist. I thought that might be going a bit too far, but I’ve decided to go with it for now. Any comments about that?

I finally decided to just go ahead and try it. So on New Years Eve, between the ball drop and midnight (’cause the ball drops in NYC two hours before midnight in SLC), I installed the blog, adjusted the design, and figured out how to use it. I have blogged every day this year so far. No, you can’t read what I wrote because I marked all the entries private. I was kind of testing the waters.

But now I’ve decided to go public with my blog. So here it is!

Just like my Twitter account, this will likely end up to be about more than just genealogy, but since that’s my profession and my hobby, I expect it to show up a lot. Other topics that will appear often will include UJGS, the Utah Jewish Genealogical Society (I am the president, newsletter editor, and webmaster); IAJGS and each annual conference; David Tennant, Doctor Who, and anyone else associated with the show; Hugh Laurie, House, and any other corresponding shows or people; any other TV show or celebrity that suits my fancy over time (those are just the current ones); and any home improvement projects that may be happening.

Let the fun begin.

Another Average Day

Categories: Accountability, Doctor Who, UJGS
Estimated reading time: 0 minutes, 45 seconds

I’ve been thinking about my presentation for the UJGS meeting. I really need to talk it all through and time myself to see how well I can fit it into about an hour.

Other than that, I didn’t do much again today. I set up my new wi-fi router, which will hopefully make setting one up at the synagogue a little easier, having done it so recently. It didn’t want to work until I ran the setup CD, which didn’t make sense to me. But it’s going just fine now. I cleaned out some of my inbox. I watched another episode of Classic Doctor Who. I finally worked on a simple update for a web site client. It was kind of an average day.

Accountability Works

Categories: Accountability, Doctor Who, Genealogy
Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 33 seconds

Had a slow start today, waking up too early, then a loud bang at the door. (Why can’t the pizza delivery knock loud enough that I can hear it over a little music but FedEx can wake me up?) I got two deliveries but not enough sleep.

My new bluetooth headset I immediately plugged in and left charging while I went back to bed. The new wi-fi routers came a little later. Somehow I have to get one of these to Congregation Kol Ami before our Monday night UJGS meeting. It will probably happen on Sunday or Monday. I’m sure I won’t be awake early enough on Friday. At this point, I’m getting up at 3pm.

Eventually, and partly knowing I’d have an entry to make on this blog, I got to work. I did some Polish translations and then followed that up with searching JRI-Poland for more records that could be in the same family. I created a list of records I’m sure are in the family, but I’m also sure there are more. But the client wasn’t interested in the peripheral family, at least not yet.

I’m finally getting back to watching the early seasons of Doctor Who also. I finished the fifth season and started the sixth. It will be much easier from now on. The sixth season only has a few missing episodes whereas the fourth and fifth were loaded with them, making them so much more difficult to watch.

I’m falling behind on my reading again, but I’m sure I’ll get back to that soon enough too. I’m really liking the accountability this blog is giving me, even if it’s only my own personal journal and no one else ever sees it.