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

[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.