I went to Fargo, North Dakota and talked about the digital divide. They said, yeah they knew about it. I ate some candy and drank soda and got weird looks when I said I'd like to eat a salad. It was a nice fun trip. Even faster, and possible funner, was going down to Darien Connecticut for Library Camp, a gathering of techie librarians at some sort of unconference. I got to drive down with some friends in a nifty little Scion boxmobile and met a whole bunch of neat people while I was there. I even did a little presentation on accessibility called "I know what good web design is, why don't you know what good web design is?" which I think is a great title. Yesterday I was all set to talk to local parents about Internet Safety, but no one showed up at the library, so I got to talk to librarians about Internet Safety. We all messed around and laughed at MySpace (are you on MySpace? I am on my space) and learned a few things. I'm not sure how to make people show up for a talk about Internet safety, but lord knows people could use it.

My Mom is home, home from the hospital. I'll be going down to see her this weekend. She's not supposed to drive a car or even be in a car for six weeks which is really a bit of a hassle if you don't live walking distance from anyplace and your side hurts. She's been in good spirits and healing well, send her cards if you're inspired. She likes mail.

I've been doing my usual itinerant thing, going from place to place. I'm still not settled in to my new house situation (new roommate, landlady home a lot of the time, high personal stress level) so I've been hiding out at other people's places. There's something calming about being someplace that isn't yours, to me. The latest crash pad is my friend Jim's place in Braintree. It's up a mountain somewhat and every morning as I drive down into town to get coffee or hit the pool, I'm blown away by the things the trees are doing. I can see them tree by tree down here, but up there you can see a whole ridgeline at once and it's glorious. Couldn't do it year round, but it's nice for now.

Fargo had a lot of elm trees, big stately elms, on the sides of the roads there. Apparently they'd survived the Dutch Elm scourge. It was neat to see them, all over the place like regular trees. Survivors.