Well! Here's something new, a blog from the boat! I found out that my cellphone package includes unlimited internet access, so now I can post via e-mail! Revolutionary!

Alright. Enough exclamation marks already.

More and more, I'm feeling better about the future. It's been along few weeks. The hammer finally came down on the boat from the po-po (Worthy of a mention in zoilus, apparently! Weee!), I had my first (and last) taste of after-hours action, and I somehow talked myself into an all-expenses paid date. (paid by me unfortunately)

Mostly the themes of the past little while have been:

1. Nothing is as easy as it seems.
2. Consort not with demons, lest ye become a demon.
3. Wondering what comes next.

Varied and separate parts of my life have begun colliding with allarming frequency. It's making me realize that there are no "parts" to life at all. It's one continuous whole. Big enough pebbles ripple the whole pond.

My Treo is a perfect example: msn, cellphone, calendar, gameboy, camera, e-mail, address book and web browser all in one little box. Suddenly I've crossed that boundary and I'm "always on," connected by radio waves to an unseen ubiquitous network of computers, phones, faxes, barcode scanners and smart fridges all babbling back and forth about whatever meaningless information they've been built to notice.

It could be frightening I guess, or ominous, but the first time I checked my e-mail on this thing I felt myself passing through some invisible membrane that separates the past from the future. I was only in the livingroom, not even fifty feet from the computer where I usually check my e-mail, but I was miles away from ordinary. After all, now there is no "where" where I access the internet. It's all around us. Smell that internet!

I'm in the middle of a crowded party right now, sipping on a coke and thinking about tomorrow. I guess you could be worried that I'm being disconnected from my environment, but I think I'm more connected than ever, after all this party will end in a few hours but this blog post only took ten minutes, and it'll last a lot longer than that.

-trevor

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