Not Unreasonable

Being the other idiot named Matt who is half of this blog, I feel like I should offer my own introduction, which I will do at a later time. I realize that will go against the very nature of and threaten the integrity of the introduction, but this is the sort of hard work and logic you’re going to have to learn to deal with if you plan on being a committed reader of these two particular idiots.

On a quick technical note, the first thing I did yesterday after Jersey Matt told me he had finished setting up Middle Relief I enabled mobile blogging. The idea is that I can blog from my phone via an email to the website. This remains merely an idea as I tried it on the way home from work with no success. I think I’ll use it mostly for easy transfer of pictures I take with my phone, which will be accompanied by a short note or competently witty comment, as writing entire posts on the phone seems a bit tiresome. That being said, I have been known to write excessively long emails on the phone as well as texts, not to mention random paragraphs...

The point is that some posts from me will be sent via phone. I will think of some way to denote those so you know. Or you can just assume that any truncated posts that accompany a picture were sent from phone. No I don’t know why it is so important to me that you are aware of this.

That being said, I was fumbling with the aforementioned phone as I was crossing Independence Avenue this morning. I was fumbling with it because I was trying to plug in the earphones with one hand while holding my Starbucks with the other while trying to not run into any cars or impressively early morning tourists. Starbucks in one hand, iPhone with telltale white earphones in the other (not my choice; I will vent in a later post), security badge swinging from my belt, North Face backpack hanging off my shoulders? I had the distinct feeling that all the eyes peering out from the cars stopped at the light were all rooting against me. Is this unreasonable for me to think?

I’d be rooting against me too if I saw me, I think.