Macon-time

I drove down to Macon and had to drive up from the hospital, where they apparently have no independent computers, short of the computer system which probably has a monitor and keyboard in front of every employee other than the security gaurd who had to leave his post and go ask someone if there were any computers available. Odd.

Anyway, the borrower and I had to drive up to the north side of Macon and find our way to the Fedex Office (formerly Kinko's) so I could use their computers and download some documents for our closing.

After completing this task, I waited for the borrower to arrive. When she got there, we walked into the Panera's next door and found a table. After going through the closing documents, we bid adieu and I got in line to buy a sandwich, chips, pastry and iced tea.

I sat down at the same table I had left with the borrower and started to eat lunch. I looked around. The only thing which was ridiculous as the configuration of the restaurant was the number of laptops in the place. Almost every other table had at least one laptop, some had two.

I couldn't figure it out. Most of the laptop owners/users seemed to be using them as table decorations as they talked with each other. Was it some kind of status symbol?
I had to leave the world of laptop decorations. I got in my car and drove back to Griffin, where laptops are used on laps when one wants to compute something, rather than when our tables need decoration.

Sometimes progress is just an excuse for upgrading our statuses.