My name is Ben...

...and I am addicted to gadgets.

I love gadgets. Gadgets define who I am. I have been suckered into buying things because I can not resist another gadget. For example, this last weekend, I bought another bird feeder for the yard. Now I could have purchased a regular, plain old bird feeder, but I didn’t. I was drawn in like a monkey to a shiny object, to this "particular" bird feeder... I bought "The solar powered that turns into a lantern at night," bird feeder. On Sunday night, after being exposed to the sun for 8 hours, I kept checking to see if it would turn on... I was getting disappointed because it was dusk and it was not turning on... and then suddenly; VIOLA! I was jumping up and down... it was like Christmas when I was a little kid.

Anyway, this particular bird feeder hangs out side our bedroom window... so Sydney and I were laying on the bed looking at this bird feeder with lights on it... with NO birds on it, and I said, “ I wonder if birds even eat at night? I bet I go suckered in to buying this bird feeder that lights up and birds don’t even eat at night.” Sydney just looked at me, laughed, rolled her eyes and shook her head. Her response was something like, “Imagine you... purchasing a useless gadget?” I could almost hear the sarcasm in her voice... but I am not sure... because I was too mesmerized by the lights on my NEW SOLAR POWERED BIRD FEEDER THAT LIGHTS UP!

How cool is that anyway?