Out of sheer curiosity (and to justify the expensive small-sizing from laptop to netbook) I’m writing this from the Starbucks on the Square formed by Nelson and Mainland Streets in Yaletown. I usually look down my nose at people who do this, but I get now how it can be… a reassurance?… to be out among people doing something that could also be done while being isolated at home.
(Jeff just asked me what I’m working on, and I responded with “I’m creating”. You wouldn’t believe the look I got from him.)
Plus, when I really think about it, the average home in Vancouver’s downtown Core is five hundred square feet, so I can see how someone would want to be out and about as much as possible. One of my friends moved into the West End from Richmond, and he’s currently looking for a hammock to buy and install since he sure as hell doesn’t have room for a bed in his new closet-with-spectacular-view abode, whether that increasingly theoretical bed be Murphy’d or standard. I’m exaggerating here for effect, but not by much at all.
I know, the grammar in that last bit looped back twice before landing. There’s lots of caffeine in the air here, and I think I’m getting a contact high on top of all the espresso I’ve gunned.
The point I’m making, which I wandered away from for a minute to look at the shiny things, is that I’m getting into the whole “report from the road” thing here, and if all goes well there’ll be more of it coming from new and exciting places, mostly to keep things fresh because I can’t always write about the dog, and also because we only have so much coffee at home.
