Notes - prick the prick /

        Late morning. Carol just returned from her breakfast with two comrades from Blue Ash Elementary School days, Anne and Morita. ---- A few minutes later and you are sitting in the Pine Hill Lakes Park, up by the earth dam, while Carol does her walk. You have not yet done your modified aerobics this cool, cloudy and somewhat breezy day.

         I have on black shorts and a blue sweatshirt; I haven’t had a sweatshirt on in awhile and am about ready to put them away for the season. The weather reminds me of Cleveland in late March. I have nothing to say, Amorella.

         After breakfast and the paper you hit Wikipedia Offline on your iPad and read several pages worth about Gaius Julius Caesar and are delighted with the iPad app, as it will automatically go wireless if wireless is available and the Caesar commentary is now updated with photos and all. You set the font for large and sepia for the tone so it now looks like the blog, and is more pleasant for you to read. I am surprised you forgot to mention it. – Amorella

         I am too. I am really glad I downloaded it to the iPad. And, our neighbor, Amy, Tim’s wife, is a librarian in nearby West Chester’s Mid Pointe and she recently reminded us we may borrow ebooks without going to the library. Ann F. who was breakfasting with Carol this morning said she has library books downloaded to her Kindle. It is easier to read on the iPad, especially reading for the pleasure of it, something I rarely do. Pleasure and purpose are not the same thing. Why would anyone read anything without a purpose. I do not understand what people mean when they say they are reading for pleasure and I am too polite to ask. Welcome to my world.

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pleasure – noun

a feeling of happy satisfaction and enjoyment: she smiled with pleasure at being praised.

• enjoyment and entertainment, contrasted with things done out of necessity: she had not traveled for pleasure for a long time.

• an event or activity from which one derives enjoyment: the car makes driving in the city a pleasure.

• sensual gratification.           

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purpose – noun

the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists: the purpose of the meeting is to appoint a trustee | the building is no longer needed for its original purpose.

• a person's sense of resolve or determination: there was a new sense of purpose in her step as she set off.

From: Oxford-American Dictionary Mac Software

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         Purpose is what people read for because the book, ebook, letters, etc. exist to be read, even plays (theatre) are usually read first before they can be memorized and enacted. Enjoyment is not the first priority. Learning or reinforcing previous learning may be enjoyed, but first learning is for a purpose, it is for growth. That’s my opinion. Everyone has their own and they are welcome to it.

         Rather blunt, orndorff. These are minor discrepancies. Your anger comes from the fact you and Carol drove to the Mid Point Public Library and neither of you had your card. Thus, the library provided you neither purpose nor Carol pleasure.  – Amorella

         You have a way of irritating, Amorella.

         Prick the prick, that’s what I say. Post. - Amorella