Writer's Block: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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Hell yeah!

Our current car is named Larty, after the LAAT/i from Star Wars: Clone Wars. It's got a clone trooper hanging from the rearview.

My old car was called Blast Off since it had almost as many buttons as a space shuttle.

Amy's old Saturn was called Swindle 'cause of his color but usually just called car.

I come by it honestly though, my aunt Val had a blue Olds Delta 88 named Ralph Nader.

I bought a piece of science fiction today....

Amy and I have been at our job for five years now (actually, as of today, five years and one month). Because of that, we got a bonus for our anniversary that was essentially two gift certificates to an on-line gift certificate store. Because most of the selections were for places that were of no interest to us, we decided to combine our gift certificates and use them to buy Borders gift cards and put that amount toward a Sony Reader.

We picked up the Reader today. We got the Pocket edition because it was cheaper and did everything we wanted a reader to do. It may not be as fancy as the Touch edition or Barnes and Nobel's Nook or Amazon's Kindle, but for me this is love at first sight because I'm holding a piece of science fiction.

Ok, ok, so this really should be nothing new for me since I've got all sorts of science fiction-y gadgets around the house, from the laptop I'm writing this on to the desktops in the back bedroom. Not to mention the XBox-360 with the wireless controller. Hell, even the TV is pretty damned science fictional.

Oh, plus there's the internet. Thanks to Facebook, I can keep in touch with people I haven't seen in years. Wikipedia allows me to research damn near everything -- did you know they have an entry about toilet-related deaths? And there's Twitter, LiveJournal and its clones and forks -- Insane Journal (which lets me know that spambots wanna sell shoes using my fanfics), Dreamwidth, and JournalFen -- which all allow me to do stuff that was pure fantasy when I was a kid. Same for cable TV, cell phones and personal GPS systems.

Hell, thanks to Fanfiction.Net's stats service, I know that somebody in Iran liked one of my GI Joe fics. That's pretty damned neato-keen in and of itself!

But, for me, it's the reader that just drives home the fact that I'm living in the future. Now, if the little bugger would finish charging, I could play with it! Auughhh...future be faster now!

ETA: Reader woke up a few minutes after I finished this entry. It came loaded with samples of books, including some in German and French and, of course, the PERFECT book for an e-reader. The book that was meant to be read in an electronic format: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

I got my towel, I got my e-reader. Bring it, you Vogon bastards.

ETA: 5/12/2010 Have discovered Project Gutenberg. Drowning in books. Free books. OMG!