Awake.In:::DreamSpace:::

This morning in NY, there were “wicked” storms that woke me up early, which sucked since I had gotten to bed at 3am and had to be back at work at 12PM for a staff meeting. I got up, showered, dressed and caught the 10:40AM LIRR to Penn. Station. I was oblivious to the massive flooding that had resulted from the torrential downpours earlier. Yeah, I know, I should listen to 1010WINS and get news, weather and traffic reports, but in case you didn’t know, I don’t listen to the radio…and the bottom line is this, if I knew about the chaos awaiting me at Penn, I would have just had anxiety about the inevitable mess I would have to deal with. Ignorance is bliss.

I arrive at Penn at 11:35AM and discover that there is no subway service on any line because basically, they are underwater...great…I now realize that I’m in a deep mess. I’m in my business clothes, wearing dress shoes and the humidity is 100%. Oh, and the masses of people around me all want the same thing, transportation to their destination. I join the exodus from the tunnels of Penn Station and as I hit 34th & 7th I’m crushed by a wall of jungle heat that belongs in a tropical rain forest. OK, what would Indiana Jones do?...right…I need a cab…oh…so do the thousands of people around me. Yeah, but I’m going to get one, how?...I’ve got a plan. I quickly get away from 34th street and head uptown. I’m looking for cab, aha, at 37th street I see one, it is empty, yikes, a middle aged man in a business suit and briefcase approaches my cab, I see the cabbie shaking his head no, he walks away, I swoop in, the cabbie says he is going on a break and I say, “I’ll give you 20 bucks to take me to 66th & Columbus”, he replies, “get in”. In 15 minutes I’m at work, nice and cool since the cab was air-conditioned, I give the cabbie his 20 bucks, he’s happy, I’m happy, disaster thwarted.

Tika is our super cool Greyhound Mix dog. She is going to be 11 this September and still runs like a puppy...here she is taking a nap on a lazy Sunday. Greyhounds are 30mph couch potatoes! They love to run but know how to chill out. This is the picutre that pops up on my iPhone when I get a call from my home number :)

It is 2 weeks since I succumbed to an iPhone purchase and have not regretted it one bit. Having a phone, the internet, text messaging and an iPod all in the palm of my hand is intoxicating. It’s sleek and I take it out often to touch the screen just because I can and I want to…I can’t help myself. Treo and Blackberry addiction is cheap thrills versus iPhone seduction. Using ones thumbs cannot compare to stroking a smooth screen to satisfy information, video or music pleasures. The future is now and I hold it in the palm of my hand.

Be careful, Mac-geekery is an expensive habit. If you haven’t touched an iPhone yet, think long and hard before you do…once you touch, you want...I warned you. If you have touched one and were able to walk out of the Apple store without one, I know your pain…you will go back…you can’t help yourself…I know.

Buy the 8GB version, hey, what is $100 more when you are spending $500…you will be glad you did. Remember, those video files are large, and you do want to have lots of music and pics with you. Go ahead…you know you want to.