... and I have 56 Yahoo emails, and there were 6 comments awaiting moderation here for the blog. I haven't even
looked at my Hotmail, Gmail, MySpace, or Facebook accounts yet! It's amazing I've not had any twitches of withdrawal or anything! My inbox(es), however, are another story!
As a matter of fact, except for anticipating the massive "cleanup/catch up" effort I'm about to embark upon, I was really rather enjoying my vacation in 100% "real world" activities. (Ok, except for a few hours spent playing
Diablo II in offline mode.) Strange, indeed. I must really be getting old now, huh??
And so, I just paid $3.50 for a peach smoothie at a
local coffeehouse here in
Auburnvilletuckeyana, so as to be in accord with their multiple signs pleading for people to
PLEASE buy a drink when using their "FREE Wi-Fi." I get their point, especially being a small local business, but the signage is rather pervasive from the moment you walk in the door, and ends up making one feel not quite welcome. Furthermore, I felt the owner's eyes boring a hole right thru my monitor until I went up to the counter to place my order. I wasn't gonna buy anything until and unless I knew I was going to be able to get my laptop to connect first, ya know?
Once I did go up to order, I came away wondering once again if she's simply got a quirky sense of humor or if she's genuinely just abrasive and can hardly contain it under the thinnest veil of pseudo-cordiality for the sake of doing business. This is not my favorite place really, but options are limited in this town. Still, I do prefer
Brew Daily's downtown, and for a moment or two I seriously considered relocating. Oh well, perhaps I'll stop in there tomorrow for my "fix" (of Wi-Fi, more so than coffee or smoothies, of course)
Anyway, as I'm generally not a huge coffee fan, and was also really preferring a cold drink to coffee
(iced coffee = *blegh!*), and simply buying a $1.00 bottle of water seemed a bit... not quite the point, I went for the smoothie, opting for peach over strawberry, raspberry, or "burst of berry." Aren't you so fulfilled now that you know all that?? ;)
I "Tater-sat" on Monday and again yesterday. And now I do believe I've just about had my fill of baby-ness for a little while. I'm back to being quite content with the give-back-able part of auntie-dom! Mom, however, who is babysitting today, considers Tater-sittin' a most excellent reason to get out of bed in the morning. She is thrilled *beyond* measure to hold that kid at any given opportunity.
And of course I do have some more pics forthcoming...
Now it's off to dive in and start shoveling away at each of my neglected accounts. I wonder how many "Hello? Are you still alive out there?" messages I'll run into? ;)
Oh, btw:
YAY!!!Labels: Auburn, coffeeshops, home, internet, mom, Taylor, wi-fi
