8:30am 2006/02/02 - I'm starting this blog from the Starbucks in BC. For us in Ottawa that's Bells Corners not British Columbia. It's one of my favourite places to write. There is something about the smell of coffee and the generally reliable atmosphere these outlets that induce my particular brain chemicals in to cooperation.
I'm hoping to get a PDA-to-journal app going, but I don't know yet if it will work on the old version of Windows CE on poor old Vadem Clio. It's favourite writing tool. They were such a wonderful invention it's such a shame they were never properly marketed. Even today they could be pitted as a cheap alternative to the expensive and heavier small notbooks like Sony Vaios. For writing what more do you really need? It's light enough and small to fit in a purse (well an ample one) and it has a reasonable keyboard.
One doppio espresso down and on to a cuppa Zen.
Well, I've made the commitment to join the Green Party and now I've lost 90% of those few ppl that have stumbled across this blog. Oh well. Harsh critical mode (HCM) on - I think that most ppl who have started blogs have an agenda of some form - and well this isn't really mine. It is just a by product of my increasing worry over not just our global environment, Canada's active part in its preservation, but more particularly the way Canadian culture is headed – into Badness and Blandness. I don't like seeing our resources going out the door leaving nothing in the country but holes in the forests and a few bucks in a few ppl pockets. Doing more locally is a strong theme in the party's mandate. Strong platforms and reasonible success in European country's as well as BC (the real one this time) are real and yet ppl still look at me like I'm supporting the Marijuana Party :P
Still the morning-heading-to-work crowd here. A clock could be set by Starbucks patronage.
9:09 - This is one of the other things that I like about coffee shops - interesting ppl. Just met the regional manager from a Niagara winery. He's a writer and is currently doing an article on green fridges. I could hear him about it w/ the barista, so I butted in (something that only seems to happen in a coffeeshop for me) and asked if he was going to cover Sunfrosts. Anyway that started a conversation that eventually covered Clios and Priuses (him) and TDI Jettas (me).
It's really pouring here. We are experiencing what I think is the warmest February of my tenure in Ottawa. Even when we have mild Januarys it usually stays to below -5C and plunging regularly to -30C. When we first moved here I thought I had moved to hell. That year it hit 50C w/ the Humidex that summer to -50C w/ the wind chill that February. It hasn't been quite that extreme since but still more so than this east coast born person was breed to tolerate.
Speaking of Ottawa, the Dogma blog had a link to a wonderful article from the New Yorker. It's only bad point was the incident it centred on cast Ottawa in a bad light. It was really just an example of a normal city’s workings. The story just happen to most recently occur here. We unfortunately are not lacking in macho irresponsible dog owners. Mores the pity. Even if you are not interested in the banning of dogs based on breed, it is an article worth reading for the writing if nothing else.
So I’ve accomplished my goal of getting in my 20 mins a day of writing. Hopefully it will expand beyond an exercise for my own benefit to something actually worth reading.
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