Bookstore blogging

  • All right, I man­aged to nav­i­gate the few obsta­cles that exist (pay­ing for a bloc of inter­net time? I beg your par­don?) and I am real­iz­ing a lit­tle dream of mine: blog­ging while sit­ting in the com­fort of the Star­bucks cafe inside the Barnes & Noble. All right, so I’m petty bour­geois or a yup­pie or what­ever the lat­est term is to deride peo­ple who think such things make for a lit­tle bit of heaven, but c’mon. Good cof­fee, pleas­ant lit­tle book­store sound­track AND high-speed inter­net? What’s not to love?

    I think part of the rea­son I get such a kick out of things like this is that it’s so funny to think that I’d be doing any­thing remotely clever where com­put­ers and such are con­cerned. In case it isn’t obvi­ous, Greg is the geek part of the house­hold. I’m still impressed that I know how to turn it on and off.

    But when I got the cof­fee there I was engag­ing in the past­time of the Wifi-heads, try­ing to incon­spic­u­ously scout out the power out­lets and strate­gize about my best place to park while I wait for the comfy chair to open up.

    I doubt very much that this is what the tech­nol­ogy was intended for, but oh well. Good enough thing to do on a spring day. If they let me come here in my bathrobe, I’d never leave.


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    April 20th, 2007 | Grace | No Comments |

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