Mobile blogging

This may sound like the strangest thing, but I spent the morning at a Panera Bread using the wireless and updating my resume…

AND IT WAS GREAT!!!!

I was relatively warm, I had a supply of coffee as great as the money in my pocket, and I actually felt a little inspired to DO THINGS.

I don’t know if this is just a result of being someplace new. A result of a change of location. A result of not having to wear a hat and gloves in an effort to stay warm while working at my computer in my apartment office. I don’t even need a cat in my lap to ensure that I don’t freeze to death.

There’s just one big problem. I have to use the bathroom, but that would mean packing everything up to go to the restroom so no one walks away with my stuff while I’m gone.

Oh the agony!

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Problem solved! Two nice ladies sitting kitty corner from me watched my stuff while I ran to the ladies room. Bliss. They wouldn’t let me buy them a coffee for their troubles though. Oh well.

Now that my resume is done, I’m going to start working on a story I’m writing for my grandmother as a holiday gift. At Thanksgiving she was reminiscing about sledding down the driveway of her grandmother’s house in Western Ma. She got a little teary eyed saying that she would give anything to walk up that driveway one more time. (Touching, but somewhat disturbing because I associate that kind of tearful remembering with the beginning stages of death. She is 93, born before electricity. She has always pined for the old days, but I think she is getting quite tired now.)

If I had a little extra time to do this I would make a pop-up book of the story. Something simple, but at the end a perspective “shot” of the hill leading up to the house with the lights on and the Marx sisters coming out of the next door house to join the kids for a sledding adventure. It’s probably the closest she’s going to get to walking up the driveway again.

But sitting in a shop with wireless capabilities has been a far more pleasant experience than I expected. Not that you care, but I had to say something about it.