Day one- the adventure begins.

June 19, 2008
Sleep did not come easy last night, but it did come.

Elliot gave me a crazy fun lift to the train station today, and Dawn happily came along. The wait for the train was mediated by a conversation about (of all things) globalization with a very persistent Jehovah’s Witness (is there any other kind?). When the train finally arrived, 20 minutes late, I found myself sitting next to two Delray friends- Eve & David, on their way to some strange job assignment at Tropicana Field… something about Fantasy Baseball. It was great to have Eve chat my ear off on the way, REALLY GREAT (I’m not being facetious!).

The train ride from West Palm Beach to Tampa was LOVELY- green-green-green scenery punctuated by cows and strange warehouse districts in minor towns under fluffy, water-ripe clouds across the state. Epiphany- giant piles of scrap metal are beautiful. Thank you.

Rahb greeted me in typical Rahb fashion- I wandered through the crowd until I found a young man sitting quietly on a bench examining some text or another, and that was him! It had been so long I almost didn’t recognize him. Off to the pad, and after a delicious (mostly raw) vegan meal at Grass Root, here I am, calmly typing a letter to no one in particular while conversationally entertaining the thought of emotional relationships to software. Ah, I have missed my old friends.