Laptops, Shut-Eye & NYC

In recent years my computer and internet access has been limited to whatever I was/am provided with at work or my parents' house where I've been house-sitting for the last few months. Despite the internet being my primary means of communication and how I find everything from directions to movie times to tax info to gifts to plane tickets to roommates to cars to you-get-the-picture, the limits haven't been all that arduous. In fact, it has been rather nice to not be tethered to a computer. However, I'm about to return to the world of independent living by moving into an apartment of my very own and will be sans home computer or work computer (what with being a massage therapist my "office" doesn't come with a computer) so need something.

And what with me being so wayward and wandering, I went and got a cute little laptop and am now able to lug it with me far and wide and waste hours and hours online. I just got it a few days ago and spent a big chunk of my day yesterday setting it all up just in time to lug it with me to the grand metropolis known as New York City. A good thing too as I had to sit around at the Sacramento airport for a good 7 hours waiting for my flight. During my hours and hours of waiting around I realized that the Sacramento airport is extremely uncomfortable and boring. Much more so than other airports. What it has going for it is that it small and easy and takes about ten minutes from getting dropped off at the curb to getting to your gate. Unfortunately I had about 40 times that amount of time. My flight wasn't delayed or anything, I just had to get there that early because my brother was flying out to Portland before sunset even while I was scheduled on the red-eye. Jet Blue likes to call the red-eye the "shut-eye." Isn't that cute? So yes, I spent hours wasting time online last night at the airport and am now nestled in a friend's apartment where I should be napping (there wasn't all that much eye-shutting in the shut-eye last night) but instead am being lured into the ethers of the internet by the existence of ten different wireless networks to choose from while sitting in this apartment.

But now it is time for a nap so I can venture out this afternoon to run in the park, wander about and be all rested and ready to play with my friends this weekend.