An iPad weekend

After a sunny week on the Coast while we are at work, naturally the weather turns to rain for the weekend.
The weather probably suits the  mood of many locals with the Pike River Coal tragedy to the forefront as the Coroner's inquest has been held in Greymouth this week. Another terrible time for the families as they relive details of the tragedy in the attempt to find out more about what happened to their family members.

Tomorrow we head over to Christchurch for a visit to family and, importantly, to pick up my new iPad. That's right folks, even though we have Noel Leemings, Smith's City and Dick Smith stores here none of them hold iPads in stock. So much for trying to spend our money in the local community. To be fair, there seems to be little stock available in Christchurch either so I will end up with a dearer model than originally intended just to get my paws on one. I figure I am all set. I have my quilted iPad cover and I have borrowed iPad for Dummies from the library. I shall have a week to get things set up before we set off overseas (the North Island).

This week I've read the latest Shelia O'Flannagan A Season to Remember which reminds me of a Maeve Binchy with the technique of intertwining the lives of a group of people staying in an Irish hotel at Christmas. We are given a glimpse of the lives of each room's occupants in a light but enjoyable story.
Nothing like a total contrast as I am now 50 pages into the epic which is Justin Cronin's The Passage. Somewhere I read that this is to be a trilogy which will make it an epic work as the first book is doorstop size. I'm enjoying the writing style so far and no doubt the several threads which have begun will merge somehow later on.
Still managed to find time to finish two of the four borders for the second single 'mystery' quilt, but I have a feeling that once the iPad hits the house there won't be much quilting done for awhile. Mind you the iPad store has a few quilting apps which could be worth exploring. I'm definitely looking forward to using the free wifi at work to try out finding ebooks and audiobooks. All in the name of professional development naturally :-)