the icon is still up because it's still christmastime goddammit
For once I have happy things to post:
1. It's snowing! It's snowing! Yay! Thankfully Ingrid called me down to their office to see, since given my windowless state I might not have missed it otherwise. I even wore a hat and gloves today.
2. My pay is not being cut! I suppose this should've been #1 but SNOW. I'm still job hunting (for a "real job" as my dad says), but at least I can pay the bills in the meantime.
3. I'm going bowling for Jessie's birthday today. She's turning twenty-seven, which means that we have now been friends for twenty years. That is blowing my mind a little.
4. Amy brought us Australian chocolates for Christmas! Mostly Cadbury. There are some funny things in there I don't know because the Brits don't have them, and also little squares of Crunchies. <3<3<3 Crunchies. Although I actually liked the violet-flavored ones she brought last time even better, and I don't ordinarily approve of flower-flavered candies.
5. I got two Kindle gift cards for Christmas and while adding them to my account this morning, I discovered you can use them towards any Kindle products...including actual Kindles. I am now sorely tempted to get a Kindle Fire. On the one hand I don't really need it; I got a regular Kindle for Christmas last year and I am still passionately in love with Threepio (I totally celebrated our one-year anniversary by loading the Dealing with Dragons series). It performs its e-reading duties admirably and I like having a keyboard.
On the other hand, well, I never get the shiny new thing just because it's new and shiny. I didn't get an iPod until a couple years after they'd gotten popular, and I don't intend to get rid of its replacement until that dies (ditto my laptop, which is still running in near-perfect condition after three years). I have an actual honest-to-god flip phone; it does absolutely nothing and is frankly embarrassing to take out in public (we've been due for an upgrade for like a year, but my mom doesn't want to get one and I'd rather stay on the family plan than get my own contract). This goes all the way back to childhood, when we hung onto our Apple II waaaay after everybody else was online and never had a game system until I was thirteen (true that I'm not much of a gamer, but really it was because my dad had A Problem re: my cousin's NES. He once broke into their house when no one was home to play Zelda. I am not even kidding).
So yeah, I do kind of want it just because I want it; but it would also fill a niche that most everyone around me has filled with their smartphones and the occassional tablet. It would have saved my ass when I got lost going to Vanessa's bridal shower and had to call and ask Ingrid for directions (which, ironically, she obtained from her own phone). And it wouldn't set me back that much. And my utilities bill this month is only half what I budgeted for. And...I want it.
Anybody have a Kindle Fire and want to share what you love (or don't) about it?
1. It's snowing! It's snowing! Yay! Thankfully Ingrid called me down to their office to see, since given my windowless state I might not have missed it otherwise. I even wore a hat and gloves today.
2. My pay is not being cut! I suppose this should've been #1 but SNOW. I'm still job hunting (for a "real job" as my dad says), but at least I can pay the bills in the meantime.
3. I'm going bowling for Jessie's birthday today. She's turning twenty-seven, which means that we have now been friends for twenty years. That is blowing my mind a little.
4. Amy brought us Australian chocolates for Christmas! Mostly Cadbury. There are some funny things in there I don't know because the Brits don't have them, and also little squares of Crunchies. <3<3<3 Crunchies. Although I actually liked the violet-flavored ones she brought last time even better, and I don't ordinarily approve of flower-flavered candies.
5. I got two Kindle gift cards for Christmas and while adding them to my account this morning, I discovered you can use them towards any Kindle products...including actual Kindles. I am now sorely tempted to get a Kindle Fire. On the one hand I don't really need it; I got a regular Kindle for Christmas last year and I am still passionately in love with Threepio (I totally celebrated our one-year anniversary by loading the Dealing with Dragons series). It performs its e-reading duties admirably and I like having a keyboard.
On the other hand, well, I never get the shiny new thing just because it's new and shiny. I didn't get an iPod until a couple years after they'd gotten popular, and I don't intend to get rid of its replacement until that dies (ditto my laptop, which is still running in near-perfect condition after three years). I have an actual honest-to-god flip phone; it does absolutely nothing and is frankly embarrassing to take out in public (we've been due for an upgrade for like a year, but my mom doesn't want to get one and I'd rather stay on the family plan than get my own contract). This goes all the way back to childhood, when we hung onto our Apple II waaaay after everybody else was online and never had a game system until I was thirteen (true that I'm not much of a gamer, but really it was because my dad had A Problem re: my cousin's NES. He once broke into their house when no one was home to play Zelda. I am not even kidding).
So yeah, I do kind of want it just because I want it; but it would also fill a niche that most everyone around me has filled with their smartphones and the occassional tablet. It would have saved my ass when I got lost going to Vanessa's bridal shower and had to call and ask Ingrid for directions (which, ironically, she obtained from her own phone). And it wouldn't set me back that much. And my utilities bill this month is only half what I budgeted for. And...I want it.
Anybody have a Kindle Fire and want to share what you love (or don't) about it?