If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you were one of the people who voted for me and helped me take 51st place in the Spendster Second Chance contest, which was good for $250. Thank you so much to everyone who voted for me! I had a great response to my request for votes and you all made my week!
If you didn’t vote for me, I forgive you but I’m kind of upset about it. To make it up to me, I recommend commenting on this post and/or going to my youtube channel and watching a few of my videos.
I had a nice long winter break to think about what I wanted to spend my winnings on, and I decided to buy a Kindle 3G with accompanying case and reading light.
I don’t read as often as I’d like to, but I do read multiple books every year and I think having the Kindle will help me to read more often. Plus if I always carry it with me, then I’ll always have something to do when I need to kill time, like this week when I had to wait 2.5 hours to meet with an academic advisor.
I’m excited about the Kindle because it has this crazy screen called e-ink that reads just like a book. That means there’s no harsh backlight to hurt my eyes, and I can read it in the bright Texas sun without seeing a glare on the screen! Plus I get free 3G wherever AT&T has service forever! It’s too bad they don’t have coverage in Costa Rica.
“Why do you care about Costa Rica coverage?” you ask? It’s a secret. I’ll tell you in a few days.
I haven’t received the Kindle yet, but when I do it will be a glorious occasion worth celebrating. Maybe I should throw a Kindle Delivery party!
So once again, thank you to everyone who voted for my song/entry to this contest. I included the song below, just in case you haven’t seen it yet. It’s a short, stupid song about the dumbest purchase I’ve ever made.
Enjoy!
Kevin McKee is an entrepreneur, IT guru, and personal finance leader. In addition to his writing, Kevin is the head of IT atย Buildingstars, Co-Founder of Padmission, and organizer ofย Laravel STL. He is also the creator of www.contributetoopensource.com. When heโs not working, Kevin enjoys podcasting about movies and spending time with his wife and four children.
Sorry, didn’t vote for you! Had no idea what Spendster Second Chance was – now I know!
Congratulations on the Kindle! Please do write a review! Been on my wish list for while now! Can’t decide between this and the iPad.
No worries, you made it up to me with a comment. ๐
I actually don’t have it yet because it’s backordered. I ordered on Dec 31 and it hasn’t even shipped yet. Stupid Amazon! I will do a review when I get it though.
I definitely would have voted for you had I known about it. I didn’t really start my journey in Twitterland until early December. Seems like you did pretty well!
I forgive you. I didn’t find out about the competition until about 3 days before the end of the voting, so I was too far behind at that point to really get up into the top three anyway.
Hey good work! I voted for you. Glad the money was spent to good use. Cheers, Sam
Awesome congrats! I think I deserve to read the first book on that thing, I voted several times!
I’ll let you borrow it next time you’re in Dallas, but I definitely get the first read. I think I was like 10% of my votes between my work, home, and mobile browsers ๐
You must not have seen my post back in November… ๐
Uggghhh, I want a Kindle.
My parents bought my husband and me a Kindle for Christmas. I still haven’t messed with it yet – I should get on that…I love the birds screensaver though. ๐