The laptop was all hooked up, but the router wasn’t on. The proprietaire (landlord) called her computer expert friend Guilloume, who could come over after work.
Many times during that first afternoon afternoon, Barb and I insisted we’d know the answers to details of our discussions if only we’d been able to Google them. From where Anne Frank was born to how long Eisenhower was in the Phillipines before World War II, we missed our instant, worldwide Internet searching capabilities. We told ourselves that Hemingway and Kerouac had written with pencils and pens in notebooks and other tourists got information from books; it certainly wouldn’t kill us to not blog and actually look things up in travel books, or write postcards and actual letters.
Guilloume arrived promptly at eight, introduced himself in perfect English, removed his shoes, and crept up the narrow stairs to my loft where the dead computer lay. The router was quickly back on, and we were back in business. Guilloume left his number, though I never again needed his help in the rest of my two months on rue Dussoubs. Barb and I immediately Googled some artists, the hours for the Opera House, and Parisian temples holding Yom Kippur services. Modern habits are hard to break.
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Well sis you have arrived in the internet age in Paris, great job, I’ll try to keep up with your activities. I played for the Anaheim City Chili cook-off yesterday, I think the Maintance Workers just edged out the Fire Department for ‘best use of theme” or some such… Lot’s of City brass hut-tutting around… Pretty tasty chili I must admit…! Enjoy your new digs…
K
Just discovered your web site. Very cool. Will check in from time to time. Barbara and I just got back from 3 weeks in the RV, touring southern Colorado. Will now be staying put until we head to Las Vegas for Feb/Mar 2008. Oh, and by the way, I believe those Utes that stomped UCLA are the same ones that got squashed by our Air Force Falcons the week before. Hmmm!
-cg
I’m glad to hear you’re set up in your apartment and out exploring Paris. I’ve set up my apartment in Walnut Creek and am back at work. I hope to do some hiking along the Marin County coast this weekend. Keep up the Blog!
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