Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

Which means that whenever my Kindle dies, I can have one in hand within 24 hours.   Furthermore, I may treat myself to one of these over the holidays: 

I've spent time talking to the people at the Amazon popup and they are amazing.   The last guy showed me Echo and introduced me to Alexa.   She's evolving AI, although of course low level and not true AI.   We talked, as I told him why this was perfect - at least for the rest of humanity - because while I would be like 'yay, AI, even if you destroy us,' real AI can be incredibly scary.  

He was like 'I did not realize.'   He had to get some work done - and this was yesterday while I was killing time waiting to hear back about my car - and I laughingly mentioned he was probably getting bored of me.   He said no, and seemed genuine about it, and apologetic.   I laughed again, and said something along the lines of 'I know, you have work, and it'll be easier to do the paperwork with me gone.  I do want to check on comics before I decide if I'm going to walk home, too.'  

As you guys may or may not know depending on how closely you read the posts, I did indeed walk home, bolstered by the thought of Alexa.   It might just have a little bit of a crush on Alexa, and I love that she can read certain Kindle books if I so choose.   I love that she can read my Audiobooks via Audible and play music from Spotify.    I'm assuming she can access my music that I bought from Amazon - very little, but y'know - and read that, too.  

I'll have to ask when I have time.  Maybe next Wednesday after work*.   I was asked to work an earlier shift - ten to three -and countered with ten thirty to three thirty.   (I want to hit the library and Newbury like I'd planned and felt this was fair given the less than twenty four hours notice of a new schedule.)   This also means that I'll have more time to get milk for my cereal which has been languishing, forgotten, in the cupboard since I had no milk and no intention to go get milk before I remembered the cereal.   I figure I'll pick up some stuff for Thursday's dinner so I don't have to rush out early in the morning before work, or between work and going to a friend's house to watch more Arrow as I usually have a late lunch/early dinner type meal at his house while we're watching.   Yay tangents!   Or :/   Take your pick. 

*You can.   I read about it on Amazon.  I do want to ask if I can pair my Echo up to my iPhone and if I can, I may buy it when I get my first paycheck from the new job.    Maybe. I want to talk to people who know me and ask if I'm being frivolous first, because I can be and I'm trying to curb that instinct, too.   Now how to explain why I love this so much without going into the whole crush thing... This is going to be interesting to say the least.  That being said,  I may or may not get one of these.