Apple Tablet: Just a Thought?

A few years back I was at a restaurant with friends having dinner, all of sudden in the middle of my main entree, I looked up and said "there was just a landslide outside my house". Everyone looked at me and asked "how do you know that?", one person laughed at me and said "you're weird".

As I drove up my street, my headlights shone on rocks and mud on the road outside my house. I felt validated, but how did I know?

A few years earlier, I was sitting again at dinner with my first husband. I looked up and said "do you love her?", he gulped and said "how did you know that?". After I choked on my pasta, I said "I didn't". Now, how did I know that?

At a party, a woman I had just met was talking about her dog, I said "Daisy". She asked me "how did you know her name?". I replied "I don't know, it just came to me."

There have been quite a few times when "stuff" just appeared in my head. But what about the things that we all try to predict? For instance the arrival of the Apple tablet. It has been making the rounds of the rumor mill for over a year now. Is it something that just popped into our heads, or something based on fact? Or better yet, hope?

I would love to have an Apple Tablet, it's easier than dragging a laptop to bed, and it has a bigger workspace than an iPhone or iPod touch. I find that even my dinky fingers are like bratwurst sausages when typing on the pad. The tablet will give life back to magazines by giving them a new arena outside of print. Wouldn't we all love to flip through our favorite magazines on a backlight tablet? Imagine the colors. And it could be updated with the latest ads, depending on our zip codes. Imagine that.

In my head now is a tablet, part intuition, part collective thought. Lets see what happens what new toy Steve Jobs holds up next week.

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