Why'd I Buy That?

Today make the most of small opportunities and tasks.  They could just be the start of great things.  (Helen Steiner Rice, From The Heart, 16 June)

Let us see in others not their little imperfections, but let us find the good things that arouse our best affections.  (Helen Steiner Rice, From The Hear, 14 September)

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This morning Melva and I went to a multi-person yard sale.  I missed the corner going into the neighborhood.  So much for the extensive map check I did before we left the house.  The ladies at the sale were selling sewing items.  Melva bought an About.com book on quilting and a bag of thread.  I bought a hard cover copy of Iyanla Vanzant's book - The Value in the Valley, a two-light book-light, and a Sharp fax machine which I thought Cyndi needed.  I couldn't reach Cyndi on her cellphone because she was busy at Zumba class.  It turned out she resolved the problem she was having with her fax.  What will we do with two fax machines?  Silly me!

Facebook announced this morning the new way of creating Lists, Subscriptions and Notifications.  I tired it out.  I think I will like it.  In the past I didn't always remember to add people to my Lists when we became Facebook friends.

Mr. Dickie

17 September 2011

Friends

Finding and keeping good friends is hard work. (Toni Sortor and Pamela McQuade, The Word On Life, 17 Jul)

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I didn't post anything to my blogs yesterday. We left the house early and went to breakfast at Friendly's in Crofton. Afterwards we drove around Bowie looking for garage and yard sales. We saw a few signs but never spotted any good sales. During the day Melva worked on a house plant that had grown to touch the eight foot ceiling in the dining room. She's trying to make two plants, one from the root and one from the top.

I continued to work on my Conger GEDCOM edit project. I started the project on the first day of July. I think I have fixed the word wrap problem in most of the notes. At least I'm not finding many lines that still need to be modified. Most of the edits to the county names are also done. Now I'm working on adding people's names to the second line of their notes. This change improves the readability of the notes in reports.

Mr. Dickie
1/Aug/2010 8:54

Act of Giving

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you. (Dr. Wayne Dyer, 10 Secrets For Success and Inner Peace, p. 143)

"The act of giving is more important than the merit of the receiver." (Glen Kittler in Daily Guideposts - 1990, by Arthur Gordon, 15 February)

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Yesterday we went to Bowie to the yard sale of one of Melva's customers. I bought a couple of notepads, a packet of blank business cards and two packages of Thank You cards. At another place we bought a trash can that we will probably give to a neighbor where there is always trash on the ground on trash day.

Late in the afternoon we went for a four-lap walk at Schrom Park. The parking lots were full of cars. This time there were even a few people walking on the paved pathway around the park.

I'm testing a new "text" file viewer program. This one is neat because it can create a PDF file.

Mr. Dickie
16/May/2010 7:44

New Facebook Friends

The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about. (Dr. Wayne Dyer, Staying On The Path, p. 21)

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Yesterday I skipped blog posting. We went out early to yard sales in Bowie, MD. I didn't find anything to buy. I'm looking for medium-sized flower pots. We never have enough. Afterwards we stopped at Friendly's in Crofton for breakfast. I also neglected my daily reading.

l'm still working on the project to extract information from the Monroe County Ohio pedigree chart book. It's fun to link the various families together.

I let Facebook use my Gmail address file to search for more potential friends. I was surprised at how many were suggested. I'm not certain that I followed all of the steps correctly. I did quickly receive positive responses from four or five people. One was a cousin, one was an AOL genealogy chatroom friend, one was a First Day Cover collector friend, one was a genealogy friend from the Kyger family. I can't figure out who the fifth person might be.

Melva and I went for a four-lap walk at Schrom Park. There were lots of people using the park. There were only three of us walking on the circular trail.

Mr. Dickie
2/May/2010 8:25