For decades I've asked for nothing for Christmas and birthdays. I don't mean that I've not asked or anything. I mean that what I have asked for is nothing.
A few weeks ago I did the unthinkable. I turned sixty. To celebrate this momentous occasion, I actually asked for something. Since my life is no longer my own, that I'm either working, sleeping or dog sitting, and since the dog can't behave in my office, I asked for the technology to perform simple tasks from the living room. The obvious solution would be an Ipad, if I were willing to spend that much money. All through December, I was seeing ads on Facebook for the Kindle Fire. I went to Amazon.com and researched the Fire and decided that it would do what I wanted. I put one in Carmen's Amazon shopping cart. She took the hint and ordered it. Before she gave it to me, she Fired it up, activated it, and configured it to interface with our wireless internet. By the time she was done, she wanted one.
So here I sit in the living room, pounding out a new blog, created on Fire and posted exclusively (so far) from my new Kindle Fire while Grace sleeps off our hour-long walk. Life is good, even though it is no longer my own.
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