A Sunday morning sketch
Posted on June 22, 2008
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This bright morning finds me at the kitchen table with a plate of eggs scrambled with a freshly diced tomato, a pan-grilled chicken apple sausage from Biancini’s market, a mug of freshly-brewed Peet’s coffee, a cocktail of ten pills (Lyrica, Keppra, Altace, fish oil, vitamin D3, a ’senior’ multivitamin and Alleve), a glass of water and my new Kindle reader, with its overnight download of the Sunday New York Times. KFOG’s ‘Acoustic Sunrise‘ is providing the soundtrack - Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt - over the kitchen speakers.
As I fix breakfast and eat, the Kindle periodically launches its screen saver, presenting frontispieces from 19th century books and other pretty engravings well-suited to the Kindle’s 4-bit, black and white electronic ink display.
So far we’ve read the Times’ account of the interrogation of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed by a CIA officer named Deuce Martinez (an officer who refused torture training) and an article about the stalling of agricultural progress in India, without having to wrestle with the Sunday Times’ legendary bulk (the unbundled paper version awaits my paper-preferring spouse’s return from Kansas). An article on small, desirable, ecologically-correct houses is next. The morning stretches pleasantly ahead…
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