Trying to say howdy to Billy Ray Cyrus and Miley Cyrus

So Billy Ray Cyrus is my Second cousin. And Miley Cyrus is my second cousin once removed. Adeline Cyrus was my Grandfather's sister. Martin Allen Hay is my grandfather. My father (also Martin Allen Hay) was first cousin to Ron Cyrus (Billy Ray's father) who passed away in 2006.

When Billy Ray was 19 and looking to break into show business in Los Angeles, my grandmother, Dorothy and grandfather gave him a car. I always wanted to hear that story in its entirety (for instance I heard they gave him a car but I have no idea what kind of car, what happened to the car, how old he was exactly, and other tales of his early career)

My twin daughters just turned 5 years old so they are not teens who grew up with Hanna Montana or understand how amazing it is to watch Miley present at the Academy Awards or be a top 10 web trend on Google for an entire year.

I work for Google on the Platforms team. So we build, design, and deploy data center infrastructure that delivers the functionality to provide answers to the millions of queries that are posed everyday in many languages around the world. We live in San Jose and i work at the Googleplex in Mountain View California.

I just want to say howdy to my cousin and his uber famous daughter and express how proud we are of their success. And offer up a dime tour of the Googleplex whenever he happens to be in town (or Miley). For instance she did a concert in San Jose at the HP Pavilion recently but they have 'people' and i can never figure out how to actually talk to my cousins.

Maybe they will read this blog (unlikely) or Google Alerts will tell their PR people that i want to say hi (also unlikely)

In any case I wish them well as the Academy Awards are pending and Miley will be out at the Kodak Theater once more to answer questions like 'Will Avatar win for best picture and director or will Cameron's ex-wife steal the show and hearts of the female demographic'?

On a side note my great Aunt Ruby la Placa lives on Orange street in an apartment overlooking the Chinese Theater and Kodak Theater (her sister Dorothy is the aforementioned grandmother) so if Miley does read this she can be on the red carpet think, 'Wow. My great grandmother's brother's wife's sister is in an apartment only a few hundred yards from this red carpet' (yeah right...)