Whole sad day visiting 96-year-old aunt, who until a month ago lived alone with all her marbles, and is now deteriorating at a frightening rate in a nursing home. What does this have to do with the iPad? My 16-year-old, who was with me, distracted himself a bit during our visit by hopscotching though a bunch of different apps, as he listened to music, surfed the Web, pronounced the beginning of Moby Dick uncompelling, and played Cube Runner. True, you can't open windows simultaneously, but if you open and close apps quickly enough you can more or less multi-task.
Downloaded Office Assistant, basically Microsoft Office for the iPad. Was hoping to add The School server to my little cloud box, so I could use it to store and back-up some writing I'm working on, while I'm traveling. Was not, however, able to add the server, and have instead downloaded Drop-Box (free), but haven't figured out how to use it, yet. I'm terrified of taking no laptop on my trip, and not being able to work on my writing with the iPad. Have been spending mad amounts of time figuring out what I need to do to use the iPad for content creation... and need to attack other things on the long to-do list I made at 2AM last night. New digital toys are fun, but so time-consuming at the onset.
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