On the go! Writing this entry on my iPad... No external keyboard, no laptop. Typing it on Office Assistant, and cutting and pasting it into my blog. Writing and editing are painful on this thing... Virtual keyboard keeps toggling to numbers when I neglect to hold my hands in a hovering fashion over the 'keys' and the left side of my left hand accidentally brushes the numbers key. Lost the whole entry with one mistroke and had to retype. No user-controlled save button. Editing is a Paleolithic endeavor. Chewing raw meat, here.
NOT!! Just discovered that Blogspot does not work on the iPad. When you try to create a new post, you can put text in the title field, but can't put text in the main blog entry field. I did, in fact, write the above paragraph on the iPad, but in order to transfer it here, I had to save it to my Dropbox cloud on the iPad, move on over to my laptop, download Dropbox on my laptop, access the file via Dropbox on my laptop, and copy and paste it here.
Don't mind that it's all in the effort of digital exploration... that part's fun... but it's starting to be pretty clear that if I'm going to write during my three weeks in Ecuador, I'm going to have to take my laptop. (And I *am* going to write--that's what my summer vacation is for, in part.) Wasn't planning on taking two machines... bad enough worrying about hiding one fancy toy, when I'm shacked up in a $20/night bamboo bungalow, and traveling light is a bottom line... Big dilemma... What to do???
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