About Me
What comes to mind when you read The Obstinate Snooper? Well, I’m obstinate and I love to snoop. Combine those traits with an obsessive love of genealogy, and you understand. My computer genealogy files are a mess, but I’m working on that. I also love design and publishing, having worked at my university’s newspaper all four years I attended. I’m an avid photographer, loving both film and digital, though with digital I can take multiple shots without considering printing and developing costs. Perhaps someday I’ll combine everything for one big project. I’ve found in the last couple of months that lugging a camera, whether palm- or SLR-sized, detracts from everyday fun, and that spending time and hard-drive space creating publications is no longer something in which I’m interested. Genealogy, yes. Music, yes. Books, yes. Photography and publishing? Not anymore.
I’ve been described as old-school, whatever that means; I’ve been told that my personality does not match my physical style. I suppose that could have something to do with being an A-Team fan…. my first blog title, Snoopin’ with the Snoop, was to honor Murdoch from one of the episodes, where he was compiling a notebook of BA’s childhood antics, calling it “Scootin’ on a Scoot through life with the big guy, Scooter.”
This blog is mainly for my genealogy finds — beginning a few generations back from me — and also for a thought-organizing research journal. However, odd topics that will crop up are gardening, art, and just the random thought. I’m an odd gardener, meaning I let the weeds grow and then cut them down; I suppose the method would work better with a smaller garden. I’ve changed my mind about this type of gardening – that method created in the garden a thistle haven, and my poor feet.
My art is mainly photography, though I do paint with my fingers occasionally and play with colored pencils and watercolor pencils. I shudder whenever I hear charcoal or chalk on paper — feels like fingernails on a chalkboard to me (and the same with some erasers on paper!), so I avoid that type of art.
Switching to the WordPress CMS was an easy decision once I had decided to dismantle my website (which I have since reactivated). Being webmaster provided to be too great a temptation to continually redesign the site instead of adding content, which is my main purpose here. I intend on using photobucket to store the images of any genealogical documents I post. We’ll see how it works, eh?
The image header for this site is from my old site. I very much like it, because it has survived as site flag for 2 years! (The image header doesn’t exist with this layout theme. I plan to reintroduce the former flag whenever I use a custom-header layout theme.) I used a photo of mine for the header of this theme; I very much like it.