This week I continued some of the random websurfing on pages like TVTropes.org and caught up on the local paper and the new issue of Post Magazine, which is a trade magazine about video editing and computer animation. One of the random pages I read on TVTropes.org referenced Mark Twain's “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court” as being “one of the first stories to show history being changed by the time traveler's actions” (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UrExample). It was kind of cool that the first Google book I randomly chose for this class was an early example of the premise of so many time travel stories. I'll definitely finish that book when I have more time in larger periods rather than a few minutes here and there.
I learned a surprising amount from reading strictly for enjoyment and to take a break from reality for a while. With two early posts, I learned that one can post on Blogger from a Kindle. I just learned that Google Docs works like a mobile version of Word so one can write something from a mobile device and later edit it from a computer or vice versa. I even learned a lot about some of the confusing memes and web shows the kids enjoy for some reason. One of the most interesting things this blog experience taught me is just how much one can accomplish in those few minutes of spare time that usually gets wasted. I took different mobile e-readers with me various places where I always seemed to find a few moments that I might otherwise have spent being bored or wishing my phone had more games. This class was long enough to have made this reading into a habit I’ll likely continue, especially since I’ll have a lot more spare time when I’m working full time. Taking four master’s level classes, being a substitute teacher, working on the foreclosure house we bough this summer, and dealing with family issues while trying to make sure the kids don’t forget who the person at the computer in the back room is has been exceptionally challenging.
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