New Douche in Town

Well it has happened. I have come into Starbucks with my computer, spent $5 on a iced tea and a pastry and am now going to blog about it. I am an asshole.

It's not all that bad though. I did get to download the new Robert Plant song for free off of the Starbucks website. Advantage me.

It is Tuesday morning and because of work circumstances I have to be outside of my office. Not a bad thing, now I have time to try and use my neglected blogger account. The Starbucks isn't too far from the office so it is almost convenient. But with everything new there are always problems to overcome.

A big problem i seem to be having is that i haven't wrote anything substantial in a long time. Everyday I send two line emails from my phone. This is efficient but brings up two interesting obstacles that I will have to overcome:

1. I don't know how to spell. I never knew how to spell. The auto correct on my iPhone knows that. It allows me to try and spell everything incorrectly and fixing it before i hit the send button. A real computer only mocks me with squiggly red lines under almost every other word. I can feel my computer losing respect for me with every line, I think it is going to start sighing at me for my pitiful display of grammar. Before I send this I will correct the lines because of shame but be lucky you can't see the first attempt.

2. I don't know how to type. I used to be able to type, and type moderately fast. I suppose I am just out of practice and the more I type here the better I will become but I blame the iPhone. That fancy iPhone fixes my spelling and it also fixes my typos. I am now just throwing my fingers around in the direction of the letters I want and hope the computer will figure it out. If my computer was a fifth grade teacher it would suggest I need "special" help.

Those are just the technical problems of starting to write again. I would say the true core of my problems stem from not knowing what I want to write. There are about an infinity of different ideas out in the world. As soon as i sit down to write about one, nothing comes up. I guess i could tell you about the TV I watched last night or how the truck that drove in front of me this morning shouldn't be driving so slow at rush hour but, these seem like marginal topics that are not good. They are not points of interest to the human condition connecting humans and the bigger world we live in. They are just annoying, to me, and to you. I feel like I am missing the inspiration because of the mundane.

Even when a new idea, one that has hope for being a true topic comes up, laziness becomes the new enemy. Laziness, the controlling factor towards to write or not to write. There is always a distraction that can fill time. Blame Twitter or Facebook if you want but without those there would be others. To just sit and write seems like such an old time idea. I cannot imagine Charles Dickens sitting down and writing A Tale of Two Cities. If he was around now would he have dictated it while driving across country for his book tour? Even now the only reason I am writing is because I can't be in my office. I literally have been forced to do something, and this is the something that won over, my second place option was nap in my car. It was a close decision.

Reaching the end of my post my fingers are feeling more nimble and the keys seem to be working easier than in the beginning. Already the spelling errors are further apart. I guess the key to writing is writing. My first attempt of writing in Starbucks is a success even if it is a little cliché. Another attempt will have to be made next time I am annexed from my office.