Technical Prowess

I could be wrong (that has happened to me several times) but I think my technical prowess is practically boundless. I recently purchased a Barnes and Noble Nook Color and slowly but surely I am turning it into a tablet. I now have an email app and hope soon to be able to put my expensive Blackberry with the huge monthly charge in a drawer that is full of other, older, abandoned cellphones and check my email almost as often at free Wi-Fi spots with the Nook. I am building a library on the Nook, and I get a daily subscription to the Los Angeles Times, plus a free Wall Street Journal every time I visit a Starbucks. All the other customers are whacking away at laptops and netbooks, and I always sit conspiculously at one of the tables where I will be most visibile while fiddling with my "near tablet." I'm sure they all want to look over my shoulder, or sit down with me and ask me "what is that thing? Where can I get one? How much does it cost? Wanna come over to my place for a glass of wine or go to a movie with me?"

Recently I put all my I-tunes library in my new Amazon Cloud, so now I can put my earphones on, log on to Amazon and listen to music (Brazilian, Irish, Classical, rock and Jazz) while I read the LA Times or WSJ or the Bible, making myself even more conspicuous.

Surely, greater things are ahead for me!

Feeble Attempt at Humor

Well, another feeble attempt at humor! We celebrated my wife's birthday this week at Hector's Mexican Restaurant, here in Chula Vista, California. The mariachi's there know us very well and they came over to play Las Mananitas for my Brazilian wife, Dinéa. Then they played Frenesi, singing it with great gung ho gusto. At all the points where they sang the word "Frenesi!," I tried to be the funny guy and chimed in with them "Tennessee!"  A couple of kids sitting with their family near us giggled a bit, but when the song was over one of the guys who plays a trumpet leaned over and whispered, "Your Spanish is pretty good, but you mispronounce some of the words. It should be Frenesi, with an F and an R. You make it sound like a T."