It takes 21 days to create a habit. That's what I learned on one of the many courses I took when I worked. Since early in November, I've been getting the newspaper delivered...it's become a habit. I get up and have my breakfast while I peruse the headlines, read the obits, and do the Jumble...in that order. Except today. It rained today. And I don't mean a little shower. I mean a torrential downpour. Puddles everywhere...including where my paper was lying in the driveway. Would it be so difficult to throw the paper on the front porch out of the elements? Apparently so. A couple of times we've been fortunate enough to have it placed up against the garage door, or else it was double bagged to keep it dry. Not today...so my paper is laid out on the tile floor drying. It'll be awhile before it's dry enough for the ink to work on the Jumble. By the time it drys enough so I can hold it up to read it, it may be yesterday's news... but the upside is ...I won't have to wait a day to see if I got the Jumble right !!!
WHAT I LEARNED TODAY: I love my e-reader. I'm loving it more now that I've have to unpack several boxes of books that I've not gotten around to reading as yet. And when I compare that to my little e-reader, which currently holds about 40 books and still weighs only a few ounces, I'm certain that it's one of our more valuable technological advancements. When I buy e-books, I've always used promo codes that I find on-line and give me anywhere from 15 - 25 percent off. It's great...and cheaper than buying hard copy books. So it's economical AND environmentally friendly. Apparently, though, there's not enough profit being made now off e-books...cause most of the books I look at purchasing now have a publisher restriction on the use of promo codes...and they now cost up to $14.99...I can buy a hard copy book at Costco for that price or less... Guess it's time to put that new library card to use!!
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