I have come a long way

Who would have thought that, a little farm boy from Linden would be sitting on an airplane typing out an article to share with his friends on their bolg. I have come a long way in my life to reach this point and I find that as I sit here, at about 35,000 ft. hovering somewhere over the Sierra Nevada mountain range, that I am truely blessed.

I spent the better part of an hour sitting in the airport this morning waiting to board my plane sending emails to clients and co-workers. I felt it an odd experience to be sure. This is by no means my first time on an airplane, but so many times before I sat waiting in an airport bored stiff and trying to look like I was actually interested in what was happening down at the Cinn-a-bon. Internally I longed to be one of those people who pulled out their laptop to do "important" stuff. I was this morning; and it felt good.

I will admit a sad lesson that I learned. I actually had typed this article out once before while I waited this morning to board. I was logged into the homestarmy typing away at this very article and I pulled out my verizion aircard to connect to the web and post it, when my connection went down mid-load. I was devastated! I had just lost the entire article.

So now I sit in the upper atmosphere re-writing (though to be candid, this article does not contain the same words) in notepad. I will not make the mistake again of working offline on the web. I have learned to work in something that you can save locally.

One might have become bitter and angry about having lost about 15 minutes worth of work. And let's be fair, I have never fully enjoyed writing. But I am neither disgruntled or pissed off. I have finally become one of the people I used to so longingly gaze at. I don't know if there is a name for these people, but for this morning and the rest of my vacation at home, I am one of them. And it feels good!

I don't feel any different, being on this side of the laptop monitor. The only thing I worry about is when the battery will die. Because I have no idea how this blasted thing works!