BlackBerry High
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Modern technology has saved me from writing by electrical oulets or in sloppy hieroglyphics in notebooks that even I can barely decipher. The BlackBerry has created for me a transportable way to update this blog, to write outdoors so that I can absorb some Vitamin E and bypass the drafty basement and the computer terminal set up by the window well where the only inspiration is gravel and a potted plant (last summer, there was a frog, but he’s apparently moved someplace more tropical.)
I used to loathe Sunday afternoons especially in winter, because they were the days I’d swaddle myself in blankets and sit at the computer writing magazine stories. To the sound of teeth chattering, I’d force myself my frozen fingers to type louder than my chattering teeth and abandon stories before they were conplete for the warmth of my wife and our electric blanket.
We are a napping family, so to write on the weekend is already a great loss. Rain makes the commitment harder. Professional or even college football is another major test. But the biggest deterrent to write – the cold – has finally been solved by this handheld device.
This winter, I will lay in bed under electric blankets cranked up full blast while I assume the duties of weekend bard. There will be no more forced creativity, no incomplete articles of frost-bitten limbs. I owe it all to this wireless creation. Of course, I no longer have the satisfaction of self didcipline but who needs it when the words can be more beautiful and my feet can be warm, too?
