#174 - Girls and Technology - June 9, 2013

Cool thing from the last 24: going tech shopping with my girls.  We worked on the house in the morning.  The kids focused on laundry while I worked on the basement.  Katrina had been out late with a friend, so she slept while we got busy.  At noon, we left for Best Buy.  We found a phone that would work for her, and a tablet that would also work.  The price ranges were similar, both got good reviews on Amazon.  In the end, video chat (front-facing camera) was the selling point, and she got the tablet.  It's a Lenovo, 7".  Nice little piece of equipment.

Libby joined us, and got bored pretty quickly.  But it's time with my girls, and that's the key thing.  A little silliness (although I refrained from skipping, we did talk about which of us would be a better meal for the other 2 to eat) always makes the trip more fun.  And we had NPR on, listening to a story about some letters to Ella Chase that someone had found on the roadside.  It was interesting for all of us, so we sat in the car for it to finish before getting out.  Those kinds of things fascinate me - Studio 360 and This American Life - and I'll almost always sit and finish the episode before getting out of the car.

And of course, since it was a beautiful day, Christian mowed the lawn.