Uncle Rhett Came To Visit!

So this is just another weekend post. Not anywhere near as exciting as last weekend, but still a good time. Saturday morning Ashley and I woke up Saturday morning and I had decided to clean out the garage of a bunch of old comic books, and just books in general. Since I’ve gotten my Ipad it has become a lot easier to come across comic books, and I just don’t need a bunch of big books taking up a bunch of space in my garage anymore.

So I went through all my boxes in the garage and filled up about 4 boxes worth of books to take down to the used book store and sell. I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of money that I got for turning in all of the stuff. I had honestly only expected about half of what I received.

After I got done selling my books I went and got a hair cut, and after that Ashley wanted to go to the thrift store. I don’t like the thrift store very much, I don’t find a whole lot in there. I used to like it a lot more when I would get books there (25 cents for a paperback!) but since I’ve been de-cluttering my life of books I try not to buy too many more that way, and download e-books instead.

Anyway, we walked in the thrift store, and behind the counter they had a whole big stack of Amazon Kindle Touches. I quickly asked to see one of them. The first one I pulled out of the box didn’t have any power. No way to tell if it worked. The second one had a cracked screen. The third, once again, no way to tell if it would work. The fourth I hit the jackpot! It had enough power to complain about a low battery, and it let me play with it enough to tell the touch screen worked. Best part about it? It was only $50. That is half off of the price of it new.

Later when I got home I discovered someone had already loaded this Kindle with books. They had their account on it. Near as I can figure, someone bought it, tried it out, and returned it. It was otherwise like brand new. I checked out the other persons reading selection (probably an older kid/teenager based on the books) and then reset the Kindle to factory settings. The nice thing about having a Kindle now is that I can read any format of e-books out there.

That pretty much sums up Saturday.

Sunday I went to church with Ashley. Church was only 2 hours, instead of 3. Towards the end of sacrament service I got a text from Uncle Rhett. It said he was in town (he’s a long haul trucker) and wanted to get together for the day. I said sure, and after sacrament service was over I rushed out to the car to go pick him up. Ashley is in charge of the nursery, so she had to stay a little longer. Once I got about halfway home I checked my text messages and saw Uncle Rhett still needed to finish up his laundry before I came to pick him up. So I turned around and headed back to the church to wait for Ashley to get done.

After I picked Ashley up and dropped her off at home I went and picked up Uncle Rhett. He came over and we talked for a bit. On Saturday Ashley’s mom Rebecca had mentioned she wanted to buy my old scooter. (Pictured here when it was new)

Well I should say she wanted to try it out to see if she wants to buy it. Uncle Rhett was kind enough to help us load the scooter up into Rebecca’s truck. We drove it back over to her house and unloaded it. (I found out after we were done hanging out with her she rode it around the block. I hope she is enjoying it.) It was then decided we were all hungry.

We went to BJ’s Brewhouse and had late lunch/early dinner. Everyone sat around and talked. A good time was had by all. After that Rhett, Ashley and I all came home, and sat around and talked some more. Then I dropped Rhett back off at his truck and came on home myself. Like I said, not as exciting as last weekend, but it was nice to spend a day with family.

Mirrored from Randy's Home On The Interwebs.