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The time has come, the Walrus said. Today seems to be a day for making momentous decisions; I bought myself a Kindle, finally, and I'm giving up voice lessons after January.

The Kindle comes about because my work bag has now chewed up two semi-elderly paperbacks, and one of them was an un-annotated version of Rudyard Kipling's Kim, which I'm not sure I can replace easily. Annotated editions annoy me, because I don't want six or seven asterisks per page on account of things the editors think I should need explained. I just want the story. It took me two years or so to find an un-annotated version on paper, but as an ebook, it's in the public domain. You can have my paper books over my dead body, but I'll commute with the Kindle. (And I had enough credit card points turned into an Amazon gift card to get it for about half price, besides.)

The voice lessons come about because work is going to be a bear until the accreditation site visit in October 2017. I don't practice enough anyway, and I'm even less inclined to do it when work is intense. If I'm not practicing, I'm more or less throwing $268 a month out the window. And I'm starting to resent the chunk taken out of my Sunday, when Saturday is for errands and laundry. So I think it's time to drop voice lessons for a while.

Thank goodness the Hairy Beasts aren't on the momentous decision list yet. Lily's only 10, so hopefully it'll be another five years at least.