Say, if you were here earlier today you might have wondered what the heck I was talking about in some of my posts.
Seems the video to several posts was blown away somehow. Me, the server, the elves, who knows how it happened.
But, the video is fixed again. Sorry about that, folks.
I ran across this video on another site earlier today. While I watched it I was reminded of my own Great Dane, Duke. Duke has been gone for 25 years now, but I could still smell him and feel his coat in my fingers while I watched the video. Duke was a barbarian, even for a Dane, but like most Great Danes he was actually very gentle.
There is an apocryphal story in my family about my elderly Grandmother and the dog. She was sitting in a chair in our family room and started to put a piece of chewing gum in her mouth. She placed it between her lips and lowered her hand to her lap. Before she could pull the rest of the piece into her mouth, Duke walked up, snatched it from her lips and walked away with is prize, never even touching her. The look on her face was priceless. He was that gentle.
I’ll never have a Great Dane again. They wreck your house and their bark is like thunder. But they are some of the sweetest, most gentle, docile dogs in the world. Just don’t mess with their people. That could prove fatal.
She hooked me right up at Walmart. Restock complete. Once again, go when the night shift is working and you get what you need.
Go night shift!
Yes, it’s his birthday. I miss him. Thanks, Mr. President.
I posted this as a comment on another writer’s blog (http://tamedingtonshaw.blogspot.com/) and was so infatuated with myself that I decided to put it up here. I have a low infatuation level evidently.
I swore never to cave in to the electronic book. For 40 years I was never without a book of some kind, usually a paperback jammed in my back pocket. I’ve read books at 30,000 feet in the air and +800 feet below the ocean’s surface. Love them, eat them, cherish them, need them.
And then I won a Galaxy Tablet in a contest. It had all the stuff the Ipad does including a Nook and Kindle capacity. I downloaded a free Bible on it and some free classics. Bleh, it was just OK.
About a year ago I went to visit my mom in Florida. I decided to buy a book on Kindle as I didn’t have time to run to the bookstore to get the one I wanted and the prices at the airport were too high. Oops.
I haven’t looked back. I’ve bought paper books now just when they are not available on Kindle. That’s exactly 4 books in a year… I used to buy 50+ a year. My Kindle? That little monster is loaded with over 100 books. I read way more now than ever before with the Kindle. It can buy new books whenever I get a wireless signal. I can buy a book I read about in an article or review without moving two feet. At ACFW last year I bought two books by the people lecturing while I sat in their presentation. (Both pretty darned good books as a matter of fact.)
Am I a fan.. whoa, yeah! It gives me the chance to take hundreds of books with me everywhere. They are cheaper than paper books, more convenient and I share my Kindle account with my mom and my wife. We all get to read each others books.
Yes, the smell and cover art of a new book are a joy. But I’ve found a new joy in the convenience of the e-book.
