Wednesday, February 16, 2005
I found some good books today!
Well today I didn't do anything to exciting except go to Target, Half Priced books and The Post Office with my mom. She had to get stamps and mail her income tax return, then we went to half priced books. I was trying to see if I could find a genealogy program for the computer. I need to update my family tree and back when I had done it before I had borrrowed someone's program and put it on my computer, but my computer crashed since I submitted it to Ancestry World Tree @ Ancestry.com & the rootsweb.com. I hadn't really had time to work on anything in a while, but some newfound cousins found my Genealogy Project and invited me to their family website where I can share info with them. Well since my info was lost due to my stupidity in not saving my files to a disk, I lost them so I set out to find a copy of Family Treemaker. No success at the two places I went, but I found a couple of other books. A child's cookbook, two games that were marked down to $1.00 and a birthday present for my younger sister who's birthday is Sunday. It was really great, she has one little boy and they do alot of activities together and I found this book called "The Little Boy's Activity Bible For Toddlers" and it is really great because it has like a bible story, then it has a mommy and me activity to do after each one. I really think my sister will like it! I only paid $5.00 for it. The list price is $12.99 so I got a great bargain as well. The cookbook I got was for kids with easy to make recipes and it was only $1.98 and then I found an old 1970's reader for $3.00 and a book like one my dad bought me as a kid that burned up in my sister's house fire 17 years ago. It was a Treasury of 55 old Walt Disney stories. I just love going there to see what kind of bargains I can find. Last time I found many great cookbooks. I love cookbooks!!! Also the last time I went there was with my mom (who taught me my love of books) and she told me the story behind half priced bookstores. I never had heard it until then. Apparently he worked for my dad many years ago at a very large, well known company (nothing to do with books) and my dad was told to let this guy go. Well this guy went and opened up this bookstore. I noticed there is a lot of them around the country. My mom said that once when the man still worked for my dad that my mom and dad stopped by his house to drop something off and my mom waited in the car but my dad went in. Anyway he told my mom that this man had hundreds of old books, tapes, records, etc. in stacks all over the house. Lots!! Anyway my dad said that is what the man used to start his first store after he was let go. I know this is prolly boring to you, but I thougth it was interesting that one of my favorite stores was started by a man that my dad let go many years ago. Well when I got home, with no success on finding a GEDCOM program for my genealogy project, I ended up downloading the free starter version of FTM so I can at least trade info with my new family lines. It will work for now, but I still need to get a good program for that. Well that's all for now! TTFN & Yah Bless!
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