| Greetings! If you're like me, you're looking for ways to save money on gas. Driving around town looking for cheap prices isn't exactly the most economical way to do it. Guess what? There's a website that will help you find cheap gas. Click here to go to Gas Buddy.com. At the top of the screen you'll see a long white box labeled "Search by US Zip Code." Type your Zip Code in the box and click "Search Now." You will see gas stations listed in ascending order of gas price, the name of the station, and the date and time that price was posted to the site. Check it out and save some $$$ By the way, your feedback to this monthly newsletter, Tip of the Week and manuals means so much to me. Donna Dissette recently sent me a wonderful e-mail message: "Your manuals have been a God-send to me. Things I need to do in a hurry come easy as the manuals are written for quick jobs. Thank you again."
| Client of the Month |  | | May Anderson lives in Arvada, Colorado, and enjoys freelance writing for several publications. According to May, "The old way to write was with pen or pencil and correct later. I had reached the ripe old age of my late seventies and didn't intend to go 'out to pasture.' Buy a computer? They scared me silly. I bought one anyway and took a couple of classes, but in the classes they never taught me how to turn it on or off! I've always given a nickname to inanimate objects so I christened the computer GODZILLA. It was overpowering me emotionally, so I took a friend's advice and called Barb Walker, The Computer Lady. GODZILLA doesn't scare me anymore. Barb keeps teaching me new ways to get more done on my computer. I'm getting older, but I'm also getting better." |
| B&B of The Month | | | If you're ever in the area of Colorado Springs, Colorado, check out the Holden House B&B. My husband and I stayed there last spring and it's a beautiful place. The upstairs rooms are suites and some of the rooms have a large Tub for Two and fireplace. It was peaceful and relaxing and the breakfast was wonderful. This weekend, in honor of my birthday, we'll be visiting a new B&B and I hope to tell you all about it soon. |
| Starting a New Decade! | | | I hinted a couple of months ago that this year I would hit one of those Big Birthday Milestones. On October 14 I turn The Big 6-0. Yes, I'm anouncing it for all the world to know. In thinking about this birthday I remembered a long-ago special event. It was 1960 and President Dwight D. Eisenhower was in office. His birthday is also October 14, and Mom suggested I send him a birthday card at the White House, mentioning that we shared a birth date. So I did. Imagine my surprise when I received a birthday greeting from him in return! I've kept that birthday card in my scrapbook all these years. Talk about times changing -- the envelope has a 4-cent stamp! Speaking of October 14, I'll be spending the day at the Arapahoe County Senior Day at 2004 W. Powers Avenue in Littleton, Colorado. If you're in the neighborhood, stop by and help me celebrate! The guest speaker is Ms. Senior America and she will present the keynote address, "Aging with an Attitude." I'm counting on her to give me some tips as I start this new decade. |
| The Genealogy Corner | | | I have been using Family Tree Maker, a terrific genealogy database program for several years. I originally bought an old version at a discount store so I could teach my mom how to use it to computerize all of her genealogy research. In teaching her to use it I got hooked! Literally!!!! It's an amazing program that's very easy to use. I've updated my version of the program every couple of years and it keeps getting better. Two weeks ago I ordered the new version, Family Tree Maker 2006 and it's even better than the last version. It's now possible to enter much more information on each family page than previously. If you're interested in getting started with the program or updating your old version, click the link below to go to their website to order. It's $29.95 plus shipping. You will be amazed at how easy it is to use. Family Tree Magazine's August 2005 issue listed many interesting websites to help you search for your ancestors. One I found interesting was "Information Wanted." It's a database of "Missing Friends" to help locate your hard-to-find Irish ancestors. To quote the description of the website: "From 1831 to 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper's Missing Friends column carried advertisements from people looking for "lost" friends and relatives who'd emigrated from Ireland. The database contains a text record for each of the 31,525 ads that appeared in the Pilot." Click here to go to their website and search for your Irish relatives. |
| National Computer Month | | | | I read somewhere that October is National Computer Month. I'm not sure what the appropriate method of celebration is, but you might begin by deleting old documents from your computer. If you have a copy of my first book, Taming Your Computer -- Beyond the Basics, you'll find step-by-step instructions for accomplishing this task in that book. If you don't have a copy yet, click here to go to the FREE sample lessons on my website to learn how. Print the lesson and put it in your computer tips notebook for future reference. Equally important is backing up important files to a floppy disk or CD. I've been told there are two kinds of people who back up: Those who do and those who wish they had. After your computer crashes is too late to back up files. My second book, Taming Your Computer -- The Simple Basics, has instructions for copying files to a CD. In computer language it's called "burning a CD." The instructions are on page 46 of that book. If you would like to order one or both of my books, click here to do so from my website. You may order them online with your credit card or print out a mailable order form if you prefer. They make excellent holiday gifts and they're so simple children will enjoy using them to learn more about computers also. |
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