Today is Absolutely Today

I am writing this in San Francisco airport on the way to the UK to pick up my mum. San Francisco International Terminal is a great terminal, quite spacious, very quiet at least whenever I go through it.

The wireless access is great though its only 802.11b, but it would be nice if there was one service you could sign up for and it would work in all situations. Here it is T Mobile, a few weeks ago in Denver it was ATT, you end up signing up for so many different services. What we need is multiple systems that are just ubiquitous and why on earth don’t we have 802.11g.

It will be a very short trip and I will be back on Sunday, along with my mum - 86 and still traveling internationally, how about that!

I have been taking guitar lessons for almost 2 years now. Half an hour, every week with Doug Pauly, a fine musician and an all around good guy. It would be fine but the playing is not getting a lot better, I am not naturally gifted in this area and everything comes very, very slowly and goes away very, very quickly. If a song doesn’t get practiced for a while then it’s gone.

So I was thinking of throwing it all in, stopping the lessons and just staying with what I have got up to this point. But then I decided to give it another try. I think there is evidence that playing a musical instrument might help stave off the ravages of senile dementia. Its just like my mum doing crosswords, it keeps the mind active. So for the foreseeable future or until I become too absent minded to remember anything I will stick with it.