So Tuesday sucked. Wednesday too.

What did we learn? Wildly vacillating between gutted and exhausted at all the takes so far. I don’t know the answer on where we go next either, but I’m confident it isn’t “stop believing in all the stuff we believed in last week.” But no, let’s all just be loud and confident about which of our friends belong under the bus. Ugh. I can’t go on, I’ll go on.

(Desperately grasping for regularly scheduled programming…) Uh…, new Kindles? The Paperwhite seems like it got a nice bump across the board: a little bigger, a little faster, a little longer battery life. I still do miss physical page turn buttons and especially Whispernet, which made those early Kindles seem like magic.

I really wish I had one of those first-generation Kindles for my little shelf of old technology. It looks like it belongs in a shuttlecraft. What a gem:

They may all just be buttonless roundrects now, but hey, we can have color!

Oh wait, oops, they’re all broken, mine included. Reached out to customer service a few times and got that standard Amazon handwavey “we know all about it; we’ve made a note on your account; don’t call us, we’ll call you”, which doesn’t instill much confidence. I think Amazon support has proactively contacted me one time in twenty years: to tell me that ice cream I bought from them 18 months earlier was full of listeria. Thanks; I’ll go ahead and take that pint off display in my dairy museum.

Gathered up every table and chair in the house for a little friendsgiving potluck. Once all the frantic cleaning fades out of memory, hosting is really a delight. Good company, good food, good wine. People, what a concept!