I want to form a gang

Saturday was Frankie's 6th birthday party, it was at Chuckee Cheese, and the huge rat with the massive vampire like teeth only made two little kids in our party cry. Two of the people who came with their little girl were my old friend Loren Thomson and his wife (who is also a good friend) Tiffany. I've known Loren since we were crawling around on the dirt side yards between our single wide trailer houses in the Triangle K trailer park on the outskirts of Sturgis S.D.

Loren and Tiffany came over that night and we ordered Chinese food, while Loren and I made fun of each other the kids played and Tiffany curled up on the couch in misery, not sure what this was about but there was mention of severe cat allergies and my three cats.

I tried to get Loren to come to trivia night (he made fun of it and made some reference to my masculinity and the fact that I love yoga, have cats and play trivia and I called him a Neanderthal) but I do not think he is going to come. In our talks my book clubs came up and the fact that two of the trivia team are in book clubs with me and they have ereaders. It was just a passing mention of the fact that Joe and Dave both have ereaders but Loren piped up and said, "I bought Tiffany a nook and she never uses it, do you want it?" Now, I know many people who have both Nooks and Kindles and I've poked fun at them all. I've told them how I want the paper book so I can keep it on a shelf and loan it to my friends and read it in the bath. I've said numerous times I just don't want an ereader, I love books too much, I like to lay covered in books, I like them scattered around the house, I like a couple in the car and all the bathrooms and by my bed and on the coffee table in the living room. I love to have shelves of books some of which I've read some I have not. I like people to take a look at my book collection and form some kind of favorable impression because they are not all romance(Dave) and knitting(Joe) books. I like to have books around that I love and can use to shim up a couch leg or throw at the cat or to burn in the case of nuclear winter.

The truth is I wanted an ereader. I didn't care if it was a Kindle or a Nook, I just wanted one. I always have, I finally got one and I'm happy. Or I was until Kirsten brought in her Nook that was color and had voice books for my kiddo and you could turn it and the text turned as well and was totally touch, now I want that nook. The truth is I was just cheap, of course I wanted a Nook, I wanted a nook so badly, show me a man who doesn't like technology and gadgets and I'll show you a guy the world is leaving behind sad and alone wishing he still had a typewriter and a travel agent.

Sooo, Dave, you have a nook, let's form a gang and make fun of non ereader owning folks and if we run out of them we can find technical faults with the Kindles.

I am so happy!