this day starts
It’s a Thursday morning here and the weather has been warming up. Always have a choice in the morning of heading downtown to a favored coffee shop and then walking there or just going here. I enjoy the walking here for the most part. I guess it’s mostly the getting away from the house and finding a place to just escape things. Last night I thought about coffee at this place I have not been for some bit of time. I used to go there most every day for coffee. Now I rarely get there. It’s a small place right on the river and I used to meet Russell there for coffee and talk.
With the hotter season coming along, I end up sweating a lot more each day so the cold shower after and then sitting with the fan going after seems like a treat. I won’t do the AC until evenings usually. We run it too much here but I was talking to a Khmer friend that’s a bartender at a restaurant and she mentioned they do the same. They just accept the electric bill as part of the whole life here thing.
Usually from about April to June we have the hot season and then rain starts coming from June or so to November. Things cool down most times but humidity shoots up often so it’s a mix of things.
Anyways, it’s the morning and I am rambling on. I’ll do some writing on whatever I feel like when I go out later. See you then.
It’s later now
And a PassApp ride later and I find myself at the river. A different scene in the mornings awaits. The river area here means coffee shops and nice walks. So I just do that. My favorite spot is this one comfy chair right by the entrance. At Noi Cafe always I feel this slow down. Like I can just be here with no need to walk soon or find another thing. This thing suffices. And more. Cambodia has this no hurry thing that I just love. Coffee is not meant to be rushed through. Most Khmer people will stay and talk hours away. I come here not for the talking but do this comfy chair. The nice coffees and the barista already knowing what it is I want. The years have been kind to Noi. They’ve changed a few things but the basics just remain. The big open windows that give a person a view of life yet kinda separate from it.
I knew this morning when I started I would go. A Thursday here is really nothing here. A day and week and month that really has stopped having meaning. Instead life is the cycle of little things. Things that spread across the failure of time to matter. For so long it was all that mattered. I had this watch and that clock. This timer and that map. Days spent under that slavish master.
Then it changed. I’m grateful. And that’s how this day starts. It’s not a reboot. Not something to have any expectation of. I’ve tried to use apps that give me the same. I got tired of any apps that want to list and measure. The last one was RSS. I wanted something that does away with statuses. Has no widgets. No notifications. I’m about there with Current Reader. It has some rough edges on my Mac. The developer is on those things and the app fits this way I want to read things. This gradual stream of things. What he calls the river.
The important thing is the no status. The ability to find the things that let me taste of them without lists and tables. I’ve felt a long time news should not be like an excel spreadsheet.
Almost there and I’m glad. And the day moves along. And so do I.