Electronics are fun!

As I sit here this morning, I should be working...(I work East coast hours and start at 6am Phx time).
However, my VPN is down - Again!?  Hey - they are working out something and it is happening periodically - it happens, but the fustrating part is that on the East Coast - people aren't even in the office yet - so I have to wait for someone to respond to my technical help request and fix it.
Oh well - such is life.

The real point of this post is actually the opposite of it's start...Electronics are FUN! 

Matt got me a Kindle Touch for Christmas and it is AWESOME!  I don't know why exactly - but I read more often and faster since I got it.  I've read 5 1/2 books since Christmas.  It is a magic thing that has already come in so handy. 

1) I used it when I had to go get re-fingerprinted at the VA for work the other day and instead of wasting an hour in the lobby waiting for a 5 minute meeting - I read half a book!

2) I dowloaded a cookbook the other day and it is awesome to just pull out my kindle at the grocery store to remember what ingredients I needed for a recipe.

3) At endless sports practices (baseball, football, gymnastics) I can read without hauling big books with me.

4) Waiting for your oil change?  at the Car Wash?  - pull out the Kindle and it's not dead time.

I only wish I had it when I lived/worked in Chicago and had a 75min. commute on the train/boat/bus each day!

Anyway - if you love to read and you are considering getting an e-reader - I highly recommend it.

Now - if only it could get all my work done that I'm falling behind on this morning while my VPN is down - that would be great!