It is so lovely raining, just a light steady rain storm that is dumping significant water on our parched withered greenery. The lawn, the shrubs, everything looks better (I don't want to think about the sprinkler we ran yesterday). No one waters in this place, sprinklers sold are mostly for kids to play in, but everything looked so dry, we watered. Of course it would rain today!
I have been working on my genealogy today. I ran through my notebook on the family, and I found that the last time I worked on it was 1995. I had no idea it was so long ago, but the amount of information available online has increased exponentially. I still need to go to the courthouse of certain WV counties to check land deeds, but N still has his consulting to do, so it will need to wait a while. Less than 17 years, I hope. My database has 2500 entries on Family Tree Maker so far and I am paranoid that I will lose it, tho it is backed up in several places. There just isn't any way to print out hard copies for all of that, much less to enter it all again.
I just received the photos from our Hawaii trip, I had them printed at Walmart, for only 9 cents each ~ there were 147 of them. I had no idea it was so cheap, it sure beats printing them out here. The ink, and the paper, I bet they are 10 times as expensive, at least.
My son just bought a Kindle, that makes 5 for this family. He went to Barnes and Nobel and couldn't find anything he wanted to read, so he decided to get a Kindle so he can browse online instead of standing in the aisle. Have you ever noticed, when you are browsing at an actual bookstore, you cannot see the bottom two shelves unless you are hunkered down near the floor, crabbing your way along at knee height. No doubt I've passed over lots of good choices over the years because my knees wouldn't take the stress. My only complaint with the Kindle is that I spend way more on books than previously. I read about a book per (laid-back) day, so even choosing among the 99 cent offerings it adds up. I've read around 100 books on the Kindle so far.
Bumper sticker for the day: "Honk if you think I'm a great driver!"
1 comment :
I am totally with you on the bookshelf thing.
I feel bad for the authors who get placed there (on the bottom).
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