Hands in the Air and Back Away Slowly!

As you may know I am a devoted fan of Swagbucks. Being a cheap sort of person I am all about free money. Since there is no down side it was made for people like me. In the interest of full disclosure if you sign up through my link and then actually use the search engine they credit me matching swagbucks up to the first 1,000 you earn. It doesn't cost you anything and is a sort of win/win but now you know the dirty secret. I don't really like you; I just want to earn a whopping $10 to Amazon from you.

The really sad truth is that I could not care less about Amazon and I'd probably pay you $10 just to read this blog. Yeah, I am that needy. (And NO that wasn't an actual offer!)

Right, the point. Well one of the gadgets I treated myself to this year with Swagbucks was a Kindle. I wouldn't have spent my money but OPM was perfect for such a luxury item. I ended up loving it. In hindsight I may have preferred the Nook so that I could use in in Barnes and Noble but the sad truth is that I mostly buy "free" books off Amazon because I mostly read cheesy romance novels and lowbrow mysteries. I have a $150 device loaded up with garbage novels. Gotta love the irony.

So imagine my surprise when I turned it on and found the: 2011 US Government fiscal budget, Tomas Payne's Common Sense, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, and Memorable Thoughts of Socrates! Say what? Where is my cheesy historical romance? Socrates? REALLY? What kind of sick joke is this?

At which point Hubs confessed that he saw "Harry's Kindle" on Amazon and thus tried to load his own books. The smoke started whisping out through my ears and he said, "I thought it was mine!"

"OK, I can see where you might be confused," I said. "Except, you don't HAVE a Kindle!" Thus followed a long and noisy argement involving apps, iphones, Amazon accounts and which emails had been set up under which names for who only knows what reason ages ago and pretty soon the only thing I was sure of was that my Kindle now had actual literature instead of trashy novels. Blah!

Kudos to Hubs for employing my favorite argument strategy! If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em enough until they give up and leave you alone. Before you suggest we share the Kindle, the whole truth is that in 4 months he hasn't picked up a book once. I might read trash, but at least I read. He intends to read but never actually gets around to it. Now I just have to figure out how to get that stuff off my Kindle. Cause you can load deep thoughts but you can't make me think 'em! Bring back my lonely cowboys and misunderstood Dukes. Socrates will have to wait, I prefer bulging muscles and smoldering looks. And to be fair, Socrates probably would have preferred Hubs if rumors are true.