This will be my first attempt at blogging from the ipod, using a keyboard.

Well, here we go, the plane is going to be late, as I expected from checking its performance for the past 14 days. You can do that now, on the internet. You enter your flight number and it gives you its current state, as well as its departure and arrival stats for days past. There I could see my flight was habitually late. Still I forgot to check this morning, as I rushed to catch BART. I had to run back, climbing 4 flights of stairs, to get a letter I had intended to mail but left in my bike bag.

So is my travel life, never prepared. I could be the antithesis of a boy scout, letting myself ushered onto a flight, expecting everything will be alright. It usually is, that everything.

Today I also left my fountain pen and paper notebook at home. It was an easy decision, as I had come to two pages off the end, and I would have to carry the whole thing for that. At the same time, I wanted to test my ability to go “light” — only equipped with the ipod, which would give me connection and e-mail and everything else, as well as a Logitech Bluetooth keyboard.

Could it be the end of my quiet coffee moments in the morning, when it’s just me and the pen and paper, in a nice cafe without too much distraction? Those would be “morning pages,” which aren’t any great writing, but just a way to get the mind going.

I’ve had good ideas writing morning pages, at times. One could wonder, were they really morning pages then, or a more focused, elevated thinking process? There is a difference. Usually preoccupations come in to preempt the randomness of a morning page. People who want to have breakfast together cause me to cut the process too. It’s OK to vary, but sometimes it can be difficult to be in a talking mood so early in the day.

There. I have no internet connection, so I’ll see if this post survives after I turn off WordPress and the ipod.