Typical

So typical of me.

I decided about two years ago that I wanted to get a tablet so that I could take along pictures that my mother could actually see and enjoy. Also, I hoped that she could share some face time with people who could not go see her. Then I got to thinking it would be a great thing for trips and such to organize pictures, keep my journal and also as a reader. It all seemed like a great idea.

Recently I started looking at one with a keyboard case and usb port and felt like it might even be a good substitute to taking my big computer to camp. The more I read the more I became convinced that a tablet would be a fantastic solution in so many ways. So I bought myself a tablet.

When I ordered it, I saw it in a whole different way than what I had originally envisioned. Like I do with everything, I began to assign way too much ability and importance and expectation to this little piece of equipment. The truth of the matter is it's a nice little tablet. It will make a great reader, and journaling will be much easier than it is on my phone. There are some bugs to work out. First of all I've got to learn to sync the tablet and my hot box.

There are also some expectations to drop. My phone actually takes much better pictures and video than the tablet, though neither of those approaches my digital camera for clarity and depth. Yet the camera is not so versatile when it comes to posting in a venue like Facebook. The files are way too big and they take too long to convert even with the media conversion tool. Also, once Facebook begins reducing them, a lot of that awesome quality is left behind.

Nothing has really changed from what it was a couple weeks ago. I still want a tripod to hold my phone so that I can do some live videos to help people with various kinds of art. I'm hoping whatever I get is quite versatile, as I now have three pieces of equipment that could use stability in picture taking and I like the idea of a remote fire.

I would like a case for the tablet with a keyboard. I like voice to text some for putting my ideas down, but I need a keyboard for cleaning them up and it would be so much easier than using voice to text and then sending it to the computer to clean it up and post it.

Once again I've come full circle. The tablet is simply a tablet, not a superhero. The phone is still a phone - perhaps even more so now that I have a tablet. The camera gives me wonderful creative liberty. And I haven't solved one single serious, earth-shaking, universal problem!