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 I'm addicted to the iPad!!  This thing rocks.  I waste a lot of time on it, but I also use it for practical things as well.  One of my favorite apps is called Running Log.  When I get done with a run I totally geek out and get all excited about logging in all the info.  I do have a Garmin Forerunner, which I highly recommend to any runner, but this does so much more.  It is so cool to see how I am slowly getting my speed back after having Orlando in July.  At the end of each month it gives me stats for how many miles I ran, how many hours, and what my average pace was for the month.  Since I started running again in August my average pace has dropped 45 seconds.  Not bad considering 3 of those months have been cold and cruddy.  
 You want to know another great feature of the iPad?  It can be used as a babysitter!
Lyla is a pro at navigating this thing.  She loves to play with it, and it entertains her for hours!!!  (Not really, she is only two and has a super short attention span.  But she is good for about 20 minutes.)  Twenty whole minutes!!!  Do you know how much cleaning I can get done?  Or better, do you know how much surfing I can do on the net?  I can easily check facebook, look at a few items on eBay, read the blogs I follow, and squeeze in People.com.  If you have a fatty tax return coming I would use some of it and invest in an iPad :)

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