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Oct. 22nd, 2010
Today's News and Weather Report
Oct. 22nd, 2010 04:03 pmToday was pretty nice -- if only I felt better. There is more clean-up to be done but I am too tired and achy and shivery. Plus I have an absolute *bitch* of a headache... >>>.<<< . I think I am just worn out. Stress -- ugh!!
Summer (my cleaning lady) is supposed to have her baby today. She was due on Monday? Tuesday?, so they were going to induce today. Personally I was hoping she would have the baby on Halloween, or better yet twins [vbeg] but for once I kept my mouth shut about that.
Last night I watched a Discovery special on Jack the Ripper. I admit it; I always watch documentaries (I'm using the term loosely, of course) like that. This one had a new suspect for Jack -- an attendant who worked at the Whitechapel workhouse mortuary. I wasn't able to properly hear either the name of the suspect or the researcher. The researcher's name sounded like "mitro" (rhymes with 'nitro') but I couldn't find him listed at the Discovery website and they didn't list it on the screen. *sigh* But the suspect's name was Richard (or maybe Robert) M___. [Again, I'm sorry to be so vague but I didn't get things copied down properly last night. Maybe C will remember?] But I was fascinated by the way they used 'overlays' comparing modern and 1888-90-ish maps of the area. Of special interest was how they found Eagle Lane (?), which is where the old mortuary was located. It's gone now; in fact it sounds like a lot of Whitechapel was rezoned/rebuilt in the 1970-80's. But in keeping with the spooky theme, the area where the mortuary was located is now empty -- yard/garden space, iirc. All of which makes me wonder if the planners had heard about the old place being haunted, or something. Hmmmmmm. And oh yeah, I just have to wonder what the new residents think of Ripperologists and Ripper tours retracing the murder sites as best they can, and filming and all that sort of thing. I'm sure that it would make an interesting sociological study or something of the sort -- always assuming that you could get the residents to talk in the first place...
Ok, off to take another nap and take some more aspirin and see if I can get this headache under control.
Summer (my cleaning lady) is supposed to have her baby today. She was due on Monday? Tuesday?, so they were going to induce today. Personally I was hoping she would have the baby on Halloween, or better yet twins [vbeg] but for once I kept my mouth shut about that.
Last night I watched a Discovery special on Jack the Ripper. I admit it; I always watch documentaries (I'm using the term loosely, of course) like that. This one had a new suspect for Jack -- an attendant who worked at the Whitechapel workhouse mortuary. I wasn't able to properly hear either the name of the suspect or the researcher. The researcher's name sounded like "mitro" (rhymes with 'nitro') but I couldn't find him listed at the Discovery website and they didn't list it on the screen. *sigh* But the suspect's name was Richard (or maybe Robert) M___. [Again, I'm sorry to be so vague but I didn't get things copied down properly last night. Maybe C will remember?] But I was fascinated by the way they used 'overlays' comparing modern and 1888-90-ish maps of the area. Of special interest was how they found Eagle Lane (?), which is where the old mortuary was located. It's gone now; in fact it sounds like a lot of Whitechapel was rezoned/rebuilt in the 1970-80's. But in keeping with the spooky theme, the area where the mortuary was located is now empty -- yard/garden space, iirc. All of which makes me wonder if the planners had heard about the old place being haunted, or something. Hmmmmmm. And oh yeah, I just have to wonder what the new residents think of Ripperologists and Ripper tours retracing the murder sites as best they can, and filming and all that sort of thing. I'm sure that it would make an interesting sociological study or something of the sort -- always assuming that you could get the residents to talk in the first place...
Ok, off to take another nap and take some more aspirin and see if I can get this headache under control.
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