Cold Days
When the cold weather hits, and I realize it’s been weeks or months since last posting a comment to my blog — it seems right to be inside playing fetch with Socks the Cat. Yes, Socks fetches. She chases rubber bands. I shoot it across the room and she zooms for it faster than an email goes to Bill Gates. Then she picks it up in her teeth and brings it back to me, dropping it at my feet. If I don’t pick it up and shoot it across the room yet again, she meows louder than speakers hooked up to Bill Gates’ computer.
I doubt too many cats in the world fetch as reliably and relentlessly as Socks the Cat. Apparently she thinks this game is one I want to play as much as she does. And that makes me think of wifi connections. Why wifi? Wi-not? Increasingly I take my tablet pc with me when I go for coffee or to a bookstore. My tablet pc is a little like Socks the Cat and I playing fetch: Socks doesn’t have as much fun with the rubber band without my shooting it. And I don’t have as much fun going to Starbuck’s unless I have my tablet.
Doesn’t this make great sense? Not actually, but it makes enough sense to me to say: cats don’t have to chase rubber bands but if they do and I like it too — isn’t that good stuff? And if I prefer going for coffee with my tablet pc and connect wirelessly to the Internet just to be connected to the global world and see what Bill Gates puts in his coffee or his computer — isn’t that good stuff, too??
Well, okay, a cat chasing rubber bands and me drinking coffee with my tablet pc don’t have much in common with one another. Still, I like coffee, I like my cats, I like my tablet, and, well, I like how learning for the pure sake of learning is what my life is all about.
So, Socks, let’s use this cold day to chase rubber bands, connect to the world, and see what happens! I think Bill Gates would be proud.