Four on a Wednesday

It suddenly occurred to me that now that our restless family member is homesteading, for the time being, in Hawai'i, one of the siblings with whom he deigns to communicate might encourage him to research whether his grandfather's first brief marriage might have produced my half-brother or sister.  There's a list of possibilities extant which I have mislaid, but the family geneologist may be able to furnish a copy.

Although the address label  of The Week seems to indicate my subscription runs through February 2014, apparently that is an error, and I probably only received the advertised three-issue free trial.

It also occurs to me that the several authors of the Bible don't seem to have last names.  Christ wasn't Jesus' surname, but an adjectival description of his kingly status.  He was of the house of David, however, so how about Davidson?  After all, even one Roman slave had a full name  --  Judah Ben-Hur, so why the secrecy?   (I'd list a bunch of Jewish surnames here, but all that come to mind are those later ones of Germanic or Slavic origin such as Schwartz, Lowenstein, Konigsberg, Goldenberg, Kabelsky, and those of other popular entertainers.)

ONE LAST NON-SEQUITUR:  Recently, an active brain has been disturbing my sleep as I contemplated writing a memoir, but a couple of nights ago, I epiphed.  My life has been stunnngly boring, and no matter how cleverly I phrased the stories, nobody will want to read them.  I'll just be David Sedaris lite-er.  (The most interesting part of his life is his yummy sister, Amy.)