Going Mobile

Play the tape machine / make the toast and tea / When I'm mobile / Well I can lay in bed with only highway ahead / When I'm mobile

Pete Townshend's ode to traveling aimlessly in his mobile home paradise has taken on a new meaning for me. During the last year, my purchases of a new computer, high speed cable Internet access, and now, a wireless router has me with the pedal to the metal cruising down the Audobahn of the Information Superhighway. I was able to motor to places where I've never been during my unplanned sojourn from the real world. Our school's leader in our T.I.P. (Technology Immersion Program) might have been speaking tongue- in-cheek when he told us his goal was "to be able to do this gig from home," but I'm pretty sure that he wasn't too far from the truth. The truth being that given a destination, a fast car, and some speed limits, students might learn far more by using all of the resources out there, reachable in nano seconds. He's right, too, that it's the adults who need the driver training to get their classes up to speed with the new technology.

As for me, I don't care about pollution / I'm an air-conditioned gypsy / That's my solution / Watch the police and the tax man miss me / I'm mobile, I'm mobile

Back to the grind of Crosstown Traffic (All you do is slow me down /And I got better things on the other side of town) on Monday.