I was playing around with ancestry.com and found myself, which was quite cool in itself I thought. Playing around I found a line going back 24 generations to a grandfather born in 1229, before that the farthest I was aware of was 16 generations back to 1524. Then I noticed a little button to find famous people related to you. So of course, I couldn’t resist. Some of the highlights:

Lyndon B Johnson, 36th President of the United States of America, 6th Cousin 2 times removed
Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States, 7th Cousin 4 times removed
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman, First Lady, wife of Harry S. Truman, 8th Cousin 3 times removed
Walt Whitman, Poet, 7th Cousin 5 times removed
George Orwell, Author, 9th Cousin 5 times removed
William Avery “Billy” Bishop, Canada’s first combat ace, more WWI victories than any other British pilot

Thats as close as I will ever get to being famous or important :p

Angel, my female sugar glider, passed away last night. She was five. I had her for almost two years. She was a normally a shy timid little thing, but she had her moments where she would get brave and warm up and want to play. She loved her mealies and yogurt drops and play with her big brother Shady.

Good bye sweetie…