I'm free...and freedom tastes of reality!

I am performing a monthly ritual this morning -- that being a meeting with my lawyer/accountant to fill out/file my TVA report for the month previous -- and as is also ritual I am passing the hour before our 10AM meeting in a nearby café soaking in some coffee.  As usual, there are a few people sitting with open laptops, and while this is far from uncommon -- heck, in the US it seems to be almost illegal these days to inhabit a coffee joint WITHOUT your laptop -- it is not something I typically find myself doing unless absolutely necessary.  This is true for numerous reasons:  the non-portability of my previous so-called "portables" (refer to previous blog entries -- and likely future ones, as well), the pain of waiting for a Windows machine to boot-up, and -- chief among my lack of enthusiasm for European café surfing -- the scarcity of free wifi (in Paris, anyway)...or, at least, the scarcity of free wifi that my systems could detect.  In fact, the obstacles to pain-free café computing were such that I have not considered it for quite some time...until today, that is.

When preparing my various documents and such for the afformentioned monthly meeting I though, "Hey...instead of just stuffing this stuff into the little book bag I usually cart it around in, why don't I instead put it in the front pocket of AppleKory's case and take my new pal on the road (or into the café, as it were)?  It's so easy to use at home, perhaps AppleKory can get me over my computing-in-cafés hump."

Well, needless to say that I am leading up to yet another story of AppleKory triumph.  I started this blog entry with AppleKory on my lap at the Starbucks at St. Lazare, where I was able to piggyback on a local hotel's free wifi (my Dell laptops would've never picked that up) and jump right into my blog. 

Could it be any easier with a MacBook?  Perhaps if I was talking my words into pixels instead of typing them. (Or perhaps not.)