Can’t.Put.Down.iPad

 I am in loooooooove!! Maybe a little overly in love- I have hardly let it out of my hands since Friday night.i am VERY pleased, although the little on-screen keyboard is not very conducive to a lot of typing. Meaning this will be an unusually short entry. I’ve been doing the 750 words thing since the beginning of October and it usually takes me 15 minutes- on the iPad it took FORTY FIVE MINUTES. However, I did notice that it was getting a lot easier by the time I was done. I think it will just take practice, and I also may invest in a little keyboard eventually. Once I can afford more financial damage. So if this looks weird, that’s my excuse. Still adapting to on-screen typing.

i have been downloading apps like a crazy person, of course. I don’t have a smart phone so this is my first experience with the world of unlimited apps. And what a fun world it is! I have travel apps and map apps and book apps and music apps and a word processing app that I actually did pay $10 for. We can get Microsoft Office through the university for PC and Mac, and for iPad if the  iPad is owned by the university. Oddly you can’t get it on your own iPad. At all. Even for money. Very strange. So I bought what looks like a good one- meaning it at least got good reviews. Most of the apps were free, though. I can tell I’ll probably have to have a limited app budget each month, though. The dollar and two dollar ones start adding up fast. I think I’m in app overload now. But it’s SO MUCH FUN!!!

The mini is a perfect size for toting around -luckily, since I fear I will never let go of it again. And I think the screen resolution is fine. Amazon scared me right before I ordered it with their ranting comparison of the mini to the Kindle Fire, as far as screen resolution goes.to hear them, you’d think it was like a grainy black and white TV from the fifties. But it looks great to me. I don’t know what the retina displays are like, but my laptop has a high definition screen and this one doesn’t seem bad at all in comparison. It’s a lot smaller so that helps the resolution, I’m sure. I’ll sacrifice a little resolution for portability. It isn’t seeming like much of a sacrifice so far.

so, short entry! We weathered the blizzard with no problems. The power didn’t even flicker. Internet stayed on and we had heat. It has been warmer these last two days, but there is STILL SNOW LYING AROUND. There are piles twice as tall as I am in the mall parking lot. I am totally sick of winter already, which is quite scary as it hasn’t even begun yet. But I feel like I should not whine since we are on easy street compared to New York and New Jersey. 
 
OH, we went to the movies yesterday and saw Cloud Atlas. LOVED it. We haven’t been to a movie since Alice and that was years ago (although I went to The Help by myself last year) but this is one to see on the big screen. I love the book- I am a huge fan of David Mitchell- and could not imagine how it would ever translate to a movie. But they did a great job, and it actually made the connections between the characters clearer than the book did, at least a lot earlier on. Baker B hasn’t read the book and he liked it as much as I did. Be forewarned that it is not a light and fluffy film. And it is loooooong. But I am ready to see it again. And it is one that needs repeated viewings, I think. So go see it right now!