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If You Want To Surprise Me, Send Me A Postcard First
Mon Apr 12 2010


A few weeks ago, something came in the mail. I thought it was a book I had ordered a week earlier from Amazon. Turns out I was totally mistaken. . . Well, not TOTALLY, but close.
Hub Man decided he could not stand to see me dithering about a certain purchase another minute, and made an executive decision.
What was it?
Here's a hint:

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Oh yeah. He did. I must in all honesty tell you I was not very gracious about it. I'm not all that fond of surprises you see. I need time to anticipate things. I enjoy them more that way. I know this is annoying to people, but what can I tell you. I LIKE anticipation. It gives me goose bumps. But with this, well, I had to jump in the deep end of the pool, and I didn't have my swim suit on. It was more than a bit of a shock. I was reeling, truth to tell...
Meet my Kindle DX.

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Whammo. Zowie. Yikes. OMG. Eeep. Shazam!
Yesterday I bought and downloaded in less 30 seconds, "The Stand" by Stephen King. It will be nice not to have to hold up a thousand page book while I read it. And if I get tired of reading, the Kindle will read TO me. Yep. A male or female computer generated voice will read to you. It's not an ideal voice, but it gets the job done. You can also listen to audio books on it, and download music to read by. You can look up things on a basic web browser too, as it has wireless internet. One day I am going to post to my diary from the Kindle DX, just to see if it works. Because I CAN get to it, it's just sort of the plane jane version of my diary...

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Here's what it looks like when you are ready to read from it:
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It's pretty cool. It's very geeky. I haven't bonded with it yet. I'll let you know after my thousand pages of Stephen King.
(Is Hub Man still alive?)
Just barely.

11 Comments
  • From:
    Welshamethyst (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Apr 12 2010
    Sweet!
  • From:
    Nibbles (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Apr 12 2010
    Have you tried postcrossing.com? It is where you send postcards (in the mail) to people you've never met and get postcards in the mail regularly. The more you send the more you get. It's fun, you get some from foreigners and from kids and from adults. I think it'd be something you like.

    Anyways, you mentioned postcards and it made me think of it.



  • From:
    Welshamethyst (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Apr 12 2010
    P.S. I like the new interior decoration!
  • From:
    404Error (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Apr 12 2010
    I love how you've redocorated your DD "room." It's quite nice and reminds me of that book (which I THOROUGHLY enjoyed!) you wrote a few years ago.

    Congratulations on your new Kindle. I'm sure you'll spend many hours reading while you knit or do mundane tasks, looking at car butts for example. My mother got her first generation Kindle a year or so after they were first launched. She loves hers with a deep and abiding passion, and hers won't read to her. Plus, hers is thick and pretty darned heavy. But she takes it everywhere with her. She has a black leather case, yours is much prettier.

    Happy reading!
  • From:
    Supertrooper (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Apr 12 2010
    "The Stand is his best book ..I love it and have re read it over and over ..I am envious of your beautiful Kindle ...xxxx
  • From:
    InStitches (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Apr 12 2010
    I have not been tempted by the Kindle yet, but it does sound kind of fun. I await your considered opinion. :)

    The more I study your new decor the more of you I see in it. Layers that reveal rebirth, nature, humor, a novel, short stories, love of art and a life ready to soar to greater heights; its all here. Love it. :)
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Apr 12 2010
    You got a Kindle!!! Marian has a Kindle, and she loves it!

    Yeah, back on line, and it took only two hours.


    Bless
  • From:
    Mamallama (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Apr 12 2010
    Institches...you put into words her new decor beautifully.
    So I will just add "ditto."
    And LOVE IT the best of all.
    I want the background in quilt panels, please. :o)
    Hugs, Tiggs
  • From:
    Parett (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Apr 13 2010
    The background is 'YOU'!!!
  • From:
    Diane (Unauthenticated) (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed May 12 2010
    How exciting! and thoughtful I might add! Let me know what you think of it. I have been thinking lately it is somethng good for David and I.
  • From:
    Salamander (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat Jun 05 2010
    I've been holding off from getting a Kindle or a Nook because I'm not sure which I like better and I'm also not sure of the whole e-book thing. I agree with you about having to hold a thick book during the weeks it takes to read it, but there's something satisfying about having books in a bookshelf. Having survived three major computer crashes in the last fifteen years, I'd be constantly afraid of a Kindle-Krash that would obliterate my library in one fell chip-char. And yet I'm still jealous of you. I will be interested to hear how this works for you.