Alone to Surrounded

Well, it's Wednesday. So the phone says. It tells me everything I used to have to know. What day it is, what time it is, what I have to do today, when your birthday is. It's a smart phone alright. And it's making me into a dumb person. I'm going to be securely dependent on it soon. I can still do a few things without it but that number of things is quickly dwindling. After receiving some positive feedback on the last entry, the one about my poor, gallant recycling bins, I am encouraged to delve more into the subject but I should refrain for now. Why strike when the iron is hot? Who needs that kind of hassle. No, today will be more of a traditional (read: boring) style of update (read: sadness). So I went from my fortress of solitude last week. Not seeing or directly addressing another live human to being encompassed in two large meetings. The first had over two hundred key growers and retail customers all huddled in a boardroom together to learn some important stuff. Good meeting, good meeting. Then yesterday I went to SWAC. It is an ever growing conference in my field of interest. I attended all the talks I wanted to see and made it out in good time. I stopped in to see Cheese on the return trip, forgetting his iPod charger device, to record something like a Conversation but we were unprepared and decided to delay. Two Glasses of Wine came and we had a pleasant visit. When she started to fall asleep I realized I wanted to go to bed also and departed. The prescribed route I was provided with worked out tremendously and I was home and tucked into my bed in good time. En route I stopped to procure some convenient sustenance. Wendy shared some food with me in exchange for money. That value menu is not what it once was, I'll tell ya what. The reason I mention it is because I am paying some kind of toll today. Feeling ill, stuff is happening that is unpleasant. I'm not sure if it was the exposure to humanity and all the infectious disease risk that inherently provides or if Wendy gave me a raw deal. Either way, I don't need to worry about doing a phony cleanse now.