BitTorrents

The title of this blog refers to two things: (1) what my blogging was like today (lots of bits, in a torrent) and (2) the current background activity of my computer, which you might say is making good use of this hotel's high-speed connection.

So I got off the train in Providence thinking the hotel was next to the station. A lingering quality of my having grown up in California is that even when a police officer says, "Oh, it's a couple more blocks," I cheerfully walk on, forgetting that below-freezing temperatures can actually freeze you--or at least your ears.