7.3.01

i find it was much easier to keep a regularly-updated blog when i had a 9-5 day job. update: i’m back from sf, and now i’m in mccall, idaho, at the family cabin. this would count as more vacation if i hadn’t been up till three last night working. i actually hauled my big old box and monitor up here, and now i’m set up at the kitchen table, while from the open windows the scent of sun-warmed pines wafts in. if i look out the back door, beyond the deck there is a solid wall of forest – pines and fir and aspens shimmering in the breeze. “sick sick sick,” you’re saying, “if you’re on vacation, why not leave the computer at home!” you’re right of course, i should be out kayaking on the lake, but i’m not really on vacation, i just have a glamorous telecommute. this web project that i’ve been contracted for has been on hold since february, and then suddenly, boom!, it had to be done NOW. as offices go, this is about as good as it gets, i think. i have the golden retriever asleep at my feet, the sounds of the forest in place of pumped-in office white noise, only natural light – none of that icky fluorescent flicker, no cube walls, actual windows that open, and i’m working in my p.j.s. now, i should actually go work.

coming tomorrow: MUNI Freak of the Week returns.