It is January 21st in the year 2012. This Saturday following Seattle’s WINTERBLAST 2012 is kind of an odd one. For the past 5 days the temperatures have been in the mid 20′s to the high 20′s. We have had too much snow for the area. NOT too much snow for me…but too much snow for the drooling masses.
Today though…is different. Today is stark in contrast to the days previous. It is partly cloudy…the temperature being 45* instead of 28*. The wind is blowing hard, very hard. The wind blows with such force that it causes wives to wake in the 4 o’clock hour to inform their husband that they are scared. The wind is what I am used to calling a “Chinook Wind”. It brings the warmth from the ocean and the smell of change.
Today is full of change. I am writing this little post in MY world from my IPAD. I am sloooowwwllly starting to embrace this little piece of technology and figure out how to use it in my daily life. I am so used to lugging around my 8.34lb laptop and all of its trappings for these kinds of purposes…but think I might get along well with this smaller, younger cousin. I am hoping that I will be able to bring just this gizmo with me on the road for my business travels. The battery life alone gives me hope that we will have a nice little relationship. Once I figure out the apps that will give me the best business use possible…it is on.
The first thing that I did pick up for this little gizmo though is a bluetooth keyboard/case from Brookstone. Pretty bomb.com little unit. It is allowing me to type much faster than I would ever be able to chicken peck on the flat screen. Though smaller in footprint, it is quite an imrovement.
May this be another part of the things that come…the changes that blow through our life day to day. Not too unlike the winds that blow this fine morning.
