Yesterday at oh, 3:30ish, I got a call from the front desk (workKaren) saying I had a package up front. As I am waiting on several gifts I ordered, I thought nothing of it. I walked up front to find these:

Later, we went to dinner at Julep’s. It was fabulous. I’d only been once before, for a client dinner. The company was better this time.

(Funny story: I was talking about the client dinner, and how I ended up having to drive people back to their hotels, as they were in town for a conference. Except I said, “And I had to take the clients back to their hotel rooms.” Me: red. PB: “Well, they were clients. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.”)

Prior to going out to dinner, he gave me my present*. I got a Nook! He hadn’t wrapped it, mostly because it came with detailed instructions on how to open it. Now, I remember reading when the Nook first came out that people couldn’t figure out how to open it. Well, apparently they’ve changed the packaging, because the instructions did not apply. And we opened the package fine.

I was very surprised, once again. I’d mentioned that I’d wanted one, that I’d probably ask my parents for one for Christmas. This set off a series of discussions about why an iPad would be better. Because the iPad does more. Which is true. But, it’s bigger and I wanted something that could fit in my bag, so that I could bring it everywhere. I was told that was not correct, that the iPad was not bigger.

How does an engineer win this argument? Graph paper!

I can’t wait to finish my current, actual book. Then, Nookbooks!

*So I could charge it while we went out to dinner.