One of the coolest gifts given at Christmas in Kansas was this laptop cooler. I didn't get or give this gift, but I did get to try it out. It connects to a USB port on your laptop and the fans blow cooling air into the laptop. My laptop gets so hot that I've been afraid it will burn out. What I did while I had this on my lap was order one for my own use. I love it. One day I had it upside down and it blew cool air over my lap. That was strange, but I might try it when the weather is hotter. 
I read a really cool book, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. He also wrote Blink and The Tipping Point. I listened The Tipping Point. Gladwell has a clear and straight-forward way of writing. Real devotees of the topics would probably call it simplistic, but I liked it. Business books are part of my reading list because I want to know a little about a lot of things. This isn't really a business book. It shows through statistics the things that make some people more successful than other people. A lot of it involves being born at the right time and working really hard. At least the last part is under your control.
Eric and I listened to The Gate House on our drive to and from Atlantic City. This may be the first time anyone was ever a little sad for not hitting rush hour traffic when coming home. Not that the book was that good, but you do want to know how things end. It was a very long book for very little reason. Both Eric and I have read other books by Nelson DeMille. In fact, Eric remembers reading the prequel to this book. It's about a lawyer who gets caught up with a Mafia Don, his wife becomes the Don's lover and then kills him. This book takes place ten years later. The lawyer is sarcastic and can't say anything without that sarcasm. It was fun for a little while, but the book takes about 21 hours to listen to all of it. Little stuff happens every now and then, so you don't really want to skip the middle 7 hours. Actually, that might not have been a bad idea. I had to finish it and give Eric a synopsis of the end. Even in the shorter version, it wasn't very interesting.
2 comments:
ha! I got Kevin the laptop cooler for Christmas! It was from Costco. He loves it. $20 baby!
Sometimes, in the summertime, when it got so hot here (no airconditioning) he would have to go outside on the deck to do his work, so the computer wouldn't combust.
ps -- I have new posting name. Ummmm, it is "Mrs. Campbell" kindof weird, I know, but I am trying to start a blog for school, so I needed to sound professional. But now I just feel like I am Kevin's mom or something (not that there is anything wrong with that, of course....)
I think Amazon was less expensive, but then there is shipping. This is the greatest thing ever to me. I guess I must spend too many hours with the laptop on my lap.
I like you being Mrs. Campbell. That's what I say all the time, in any event. Please pass on the school blog name. What a good idea.
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