The Importance of Thumbnails

I'm typing this painfully slow. It took a good minute just to get the title right, not in terms of meaning, but how the words were spelled. The cause of the difficulty is not too much sun and wind on the beach, nor is there too much glare on the screen. The problem is I cut my thumbsnails too short. In the modern evolutionary battle of the bloggers having the correct length of thumbnail is crutial, something I was not aware of or informed of until it was too late. I'm crippled in the same way that a person who normally types two finger style on a regulation keyboard would be if they had their index fingers wrapped in a ball of gauze. They could still type with another pair of fingers, but you can imagine the learning curve and the lack of production.

I am having to carefully place and press each letter on this Blackberry's keyboard avoiding if at all possible getting the fat bulge of thumbmeat onto any of the surrounding keys. Tain't easy, I'm telling you and I just wish someone out there had warned me.

One the one hand this has been a good experience because I have had to really think about where a sentence is going (corrections take forever), on the other hand (thumb) I fear I may have stumbled on to the kind of error in judgement which leads to species' end.

I heard something die last night.

At first, lying in bed, I thought the downstairs neighbor had gotten a cat and that cat was making an odd pleading mew,mew,mew,but a mission in the cold to the kitchen about 2AM revealed that the pleading was coming from my old cellphone. Four years old, ancient in terms of cellphone life, it had been unplugged from it's charger for three days.Stripped of all it's files and photos,poems from the subway and the park,it was lying alone on the coffee table, it's little red LED semaphoring it's distress. It made a last strangled wherp as I took a slug from the water jug in the kitchen.

It was such a familiar object to me. My thumbs knew just where to on it's keys. Now I have a whole new territory to explore on this newer sleeker thing. (The new thing is always sleeker)

More later from the funeral.