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I’ve spent a good deal of time now at Espresso Love, a coffee shop in my home town of Edgartown, pretending to work on writing and editing. The reality is that I got all my copyediting for Blast out of the way this morning at Mocha Motts in Vineyard Haven, and I’ve spent the majority of my time here feeding the birds with crumbs from my muffin. The ice in my coffee has melted, and the pool of water that condensated on the plastic cup is almost all evaporated, and I’m writing this in hopes it’ll kickstart my brain into writing what I need to write about.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what I want to do once I finally graduate, and Ivona and I discussed it yesterday. We’re both feeling like this past winter, during which we got into such boring routines, is not how we envisioned these years of our lives and the first years of our marriage. Yes, we’re intensely happy together, but there’s more to life that we feel we’re missing out on.

So, with that in mind, I’m considering renewing my plans of spending a summer riding a bike around the country, camping out along the way. The plan is to go hashing as many places as we can along the way, and I can’t think of anything better to do to make me feel like I’m alive again. I think the last time I really felt that way was in France.

Anyway, whatever I decide to do next, I know it has to be a big change. Any suggestions?

So after two years of wanting one, I finally broke down and bought the iPhone, and I chose a good time for it. My 3G S preorder arrived yesterday and I’ve probably changed my pants three times already in about 12 hours.

I’ve been spending most of my time acquainting myself with the various apps (all the free ones so far), like this excellent WordPress app, and I’m having a blast. The 3G S is noticeably faster than it’s predecessor and the video camera rocks. I’ve heard complaints about the voice control, and it’s definitely not flawless, but I found that if I try to think and speak like a machine it does a pretty good job of coming up with the right person, even with fairly complicated names.

Anyway, I’m psyched to have this for the cab this summer, as I can get some work done without dragging around my laptop.

Anyone have any app recommendations?