After yesterday’s Doctor Who marathon, today had a House marathon on USA Network. I mostly slept through it, but I had it on for a while. So now my blog has hit upon my two favorite doctors and my current favorite actors, David Tennant and Hugh Laurie.

There has also been some work accomplished. While I didn’t feel like I had done much, by the time midnight came around, I was getting some genealogy work done. I did some data entry for a client. I’m searching Polish church records for Jewish records and hoping to find more information about his family. After typing up the last batch that I had handwritten last month, I finally compared the whole file (even though I have a couple more years to look through). Sadly, I didn’t find a single record that corresponded to what I already know about his family.

And it really does make me sad when I don’t find anything. The thrill of genealogy is not just the searching, but the finding after spending so much time searching. When I don’t find anything, I feel bad. Not just for the client but for myself. All that time spent and I didn’t find a single record useful to his family research.

In addition, I finally started to plan out my lectures for the 2010 IAJGS conference in Los Angeles. I have until the 15th to submit my lectures and I hadn’t really worked on it. My plan is to sort of repeat what I did last year, but try to do it better. Next Monday, I am presenting at the UJGS meeting, and I want to submit that to the conference. Instead of doing a computer lab about Facebook, I am going to do a lecture. My other computer lab from last year was about using Microsoft Publisher, and I want to submit that possibly as two labs, beginner and intermediate levels.

Not such a useless day after all. And there’s still a few more hours to go before I fall asleep, so maybe I’ll get some more work done for my genealogy clients, or I’ll update a web site. Or maybe I’ll just waste some time.