Done yesterday

[mdlbear]

0313 Fr
  * up 6:40; W=187.6; drugs, coffee, emergenC
  & Colleen (after taking YD to school) - all leg joints working!
    ! delighted; optimistic; loved/loving
  * breakfast.  
  * 13:30 S. Rothman at Kaiser  useful
  & work: study Kindle 2
    ! happy that it arrived on time
    ! frustrated at slowness and inability to log in on LJ
  & Colleen
    ! frustrated by Kindle, otherwise pleased at her progress
  & Joyce brought over some gluten-free matzoh ball soup.  Yum.
    ! surprised, pleased
  & relationship counseling.  I'm not very good at it.
    ! concerned.  worried.
  * bed ~1:20

It felt like a busy day at the time... And it was mostly good -- I'm delighted with the surprisingly rapid progress Colleen is making.

I wound up being intensely frustrated by the Amazon Kindle I bought her: web browsing is slow, formatting is poor, and I seem to be unable to log in so she can read locked posts. Grrr. But it'll work for reading public posts, and she seems generally happy with it. I still don't know whether I should make her an account of her own, or leave it with mine. She doesn't have her own Amazon account.

Joyce brought over some gluten-free matzoh-ball soup -- delightful! And I've received lots of happy-making comments on LJ. But apart from that, it didn't feel much like my birthday. I think that, at my age, that's probably a good thing.

Spent much of the evening in Middle-Sized Bear mode. I have no idea whether it helped or made things worse. Some people seem to think I'm good at it; from the inside I'm totally out of my depth and have no confidence in my ability, because I don't understand it at all.

/me sighs deeply.

Comments

[alinsa.livejournal.com]

I wound up being intensely frustrated by the Amazon Kindle I bought her: web browsing is slow, formatting is poor, and I seem to be unable to log in so she can read locked posts.

Dude, it's a book. I didn't have much luck web browsing with the last book I read, either! An iphone or a laptop would be better for quality web access... :)

[mdlbear]

The place she's in currently doesn't have internet access.

[johno.livejournal.com]

Other folks have said that you want to keep your Kindles on the same Amazon account, so you can share books between them.

As a book reader, the kindle is nearly great, as a web browser, really not so great.

It's using a data back channel on the cell network, which is ok to download a few hundred kilobytes of a book over a few minutes, but not really fast enough for real web experience.

[mdlbear]

Thanks -- good to know.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I couldn't work out how to log on either. It will accept username and password to comment as me, but it won't stay logged in. Sigh.

Believe it or not, sub-computer as the web browsing experience is with K2, the joystick makes it significantly easier than it is with K1.

Anyway, hopefully most of Colleen's friends don't lock their posts.

Did you try out those documents?

[mdlbear]

Haven't had the chance to try those documents yet. I agree that the joystick makes it easier, though it's still awkward.