I won an iPad!

[ksmith]

I entered a contest over at the Chicago Tribune's Facebook page, and holy crap, I won. I never win contests.

I was planning on buying an iPad later this summer. Yup.

I'm just sitting here going "whoa." Taking yet another vacay day, which means I'm working from home. Except when I check my email and see that I won an iPad, at which time I run all over electronic hell-and-gone shouting that I won an iPad.

I'll shut up now.

Maybe I should buy a Lotto ticket tonight...

Comments

[sandramcdonald.livejournal.com]

Congrats! That's very nice!

[dremiel.livejournal.com]

Your glee is contagious! Good for you.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, you may have used up all the Blackhawk luck . . .

Congratulations!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

DON'T SAY THAT!!!!!

I'll root for the Flyers, then.

(Thanks)

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo!

Hie thee off to a lottery shop with haste!

[michaeldthomas.livejournal.com]

WOOT! Congrats! :-)

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

Can I be your friend?!?!?!?!

*g*

Congrats! That is great.

[e-moon60.livejournal.com]

Hurray! Congratulations!!!

(So...when do you get it?)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I don't know. The Tribune person who informed me confirmed my mailing address. If it doesn't show up for a couple of weeks, that's fine, because I do have other things I need to be working on and playing with the New Toy would have to be delayed. Honestly, I wouldn't dare unpack the thing until the middle of the month, at least.

[galeni.livejournal.com]

Lucky!!! You deserve it.

[madmoravian.livejournal.com]

Maybe we should call the paper and tell them not to send it until you've submitted the manuscript.

What was their name and phone number?

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Don't even think about it.

I want to be able to pet the box.

[pmrabble.livejournal.com]

I have a solution if it comes too soon. We'll drive down, carefully transport the package back to the Twin Cities*, and ensure all temptation is held at a distance until the book is done.

*It would travel in good company - Ewa would have me surround the package with more goodies from the Polish part of town. We just got back from dropping her youngest off at O'Hare with a very full trunk in the Civic.....

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should give you my cable modem while you're at it.

[equesgal.livejournal.com]

Congrats...now go buy that lottery ticket!

[nlbarber]

Congrats! I'm loving mine--I may yet buy a purse that will let me carry it around all the time, 'cause I tend to haul it around like a portfolio as it is.

Today found me running a chat client on the iPad as I was troubleshooting issues on my MacBook Pro. When there was s wait for something to install or reboot, I could check my mail, read my RSS feeds, read a book (Stanza for iPad came out today!), play one of the many wonderful games, or whatever. And it's great for travel--I'm off to Denver tomorrow, and have loaded a movie or two plus new books for the plane trip.

Do you get a 3G one, or just Wi-Fi?

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Do you get a 3G one, or just Wi-Fi?

I don't know--I tried to find a blurb about it, but couldn't. I am assuming it's the entry level model, 16GB Wi-Fi. I won't know until I get it...though I suppose I could ask the PR person who emailed me that I won.

I considered 3G when I was trying to decide which model to buy, and it sounds as though they're allowing some flexibility when it comes to contracts for iPads. But 3G with a 16GB may not be worth it. 3G may not be worth it for me because, for the time being at least, I don't travel much. I also hate the idea of giving AT&T any money.

[nlbarber]

Yeah, the 'avoid feeding AT&T' thing resonates. However, I burned through the 250 MB data plan in a 3-day trip last month when my hotel didn't have WiFi in the rooms, and now am signed up for the about-to-be-extinct unlimited plan as I have travel scheduled through August. (I don't have a smart phone, so the iPad is my only means to non-WiFI Internet.) The 3G also lets me avoid the nannyware at the office if I want to read my web comics at lunch. That said, I think even the base 16 GB WiFi will be a great browser/reader/games machine, if that's what you end up with.