The ground started shaking. "Not again,"

The ground started shaking. "Not again," groaned the Etch A Sketch. "Well, there goes my staircase art." Living on the San Andreas Fault wasn't Etch's most ideal situation, but he
always hated how one tiny shake would erase the entire image. Etch thought hard about spending his last few dollars switching to a real drawing system, a computer fully loaded with
Windows 95. But there was no way he could handle that. Learning Microsoft Paint, or whatever the computer came installed with, just wasn't in him; he was stuck with his Etch-A-
Sketch. He decided to make the best of it and carried it in a suede case. When people on the bus asked what he was twiddling the knobs for, he said it was his new IPad.
Whenever anybody asked why his iPad had knobs he said it was an unreleased model. Prototype, due in 2013. People love the idea of seeing something first. He even said he had an app
that could turn beavers into frankincense. He had a flashback of the time he brought his iPad to an Amish village. They liked the knobs, but chased him out after they found the
blow dyer in his bag. He ran to the end of the village near the sign that said, "Now leaving this Amish village." They had confinscated his blow dyer so his hair was going to be
totally gone. But Wayne Dyer had accepted his baldness a long time ago. What he could not accept is how the Amish in this village had bought into self-defeating beliefs. He'd
suspected something was amiss, but not that something was afoot. The door to the diner was ajar, so he sat down to mull matters over with a slice of pie a la mode. He selected
an artisan apple strudel and an Albanian cappuccino. A-Ha came on the radio. Despite everything, he had a feeling that things would be all right.

Started: 2011-08-16 13:55:25
Finished: 2011-09-29 19:47:00

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