Monday, July 25, 2011
Breakfast: Grandma Goodie's honey nut granola with almond milk and fresh, sliced banana. Patrick helped me run some errands. We ate lunch at Chipotle and got groceries at Trader Joe's. Patrick drove. It was hard for me to get in and out of the car. Dinner at home with Will: fettucine with mushrooms, asparagus, and red onion in butter and olive oil. Dessert: rainier cherries. Finished rereading the last 11 chapters of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows because I had forgotten how it had ended. (I still haven't seen film 7 part 2.) Rested. Dinner: leftover mac and cheese, water. FaceTimed with Tina. Bought her an e-book from Amazon. She preferred to read on her iPad, so I bought her the Kindle version instead of the dead tree version. I wouldn't say the purchase process was easy—Amazon's website is a mess—but it wasn't hard, either. One confusing thing is that in some places Amazon says Kindle and means "the physical Kindle device" and in other places Amazon says Kindle and means "the Kindle software application"—there's no clear distinction between these two. For example, the page describing Kindle for Mac says that no Kindle is required to read Kindle books on your Mac. Another confusing thing is the user interface at the point of purchase. It has 5 user interface options: (a) Buy Now With 1-Click®, (b) Deliver to: [Frank's iPhone—OR—Register a new Kindle], (c) How Buying Works, (d) Available on your Mac, (e) Give as a Gift. What if I want to buy with 1-Click as a gift? What if I want to deliver it to my Mac or iPad (both of which are not new physical Kindle devices but can run the Kindle software application)?