Just last night, I started reading a new book about Patrick Henry. Before that, I was reading a book about U.S. Grant. However, I only got about half way through the Grant book, which I started fairly early in the summer. It's not that it was a bad book at all. It's just that I have an Ipad, and I'm addicted to it. I love to read, but the next round of Words With Friends or Song Pop keeps calling me. Or I might miss some very important new announcement on Facebook or Twitter. Somehow, I keep choosing to do all of that before reading.
This is a new experience for me. As a kid, I had video games on the Commodore 64 and later Atari (yes, I am fully aware that this dates me), and I don't recall those games ever coming before reading. I don't think my parents had to put any kind of computer time limit on me to drag me away from hour upon hour of Donkey Kong, Q-Bert, or Summer Games. But it appears I need something like that now.
So, it's time to turn a new leaf. I didn't really want to start the Grant book over again, and didn't want to continue from the middle when I don't much remember what I read in the first half. So I thought the best way to start fresh was to just pick a new book and start again from there. Hence the Patrick Henry book. Now I just need to come up with some new rules regarding my Ipad use so that I don't find myself half-way through this book three months from now.
Oh, and there's also the cat in the library cross-stitch I've been neglecting. In the language of Twitter, #firstworldproblems.
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