![\"20160102_225252.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160102_225252.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Busy catching up on writing today, trying to get Chapter 1 of the rewrite of THE CLOCKWORK TIME MACHINE done, plus various small press tasks, plus writing documentation at work, plus getting new tires for my car \u2026 aaaa! So here\u2019s a picture of a cat. Also, apropos, of a tire \u2026 but that made me think. I used to take a lot of notes – I still do, but I used to too – but a lot of the time a quick snapshot of something with your cell phone can do you one better.<\/p>\n
![\"20160111_145330.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20160111_145330.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
I took a few pictures of tires and of the label on the inside of my door without having to write down any numbers. I then went back to my desk, found some highly rated tires on a web site, found a local tire store online, found the models they had in stock, looked up the old tires I bought for the car to confirm the numbers made sense, and made an appointment. Bam. No paper involved.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s amazing to me what can be done with storing information in the cloud, as much as I am a skeptic about it. (And even my complaints about how hard it is to take notes on computers are getting addressed – a fellow author just got a Windows 10 book and claims he now prefers its tablet mode for editing because he can use it like real paper).<\/p>\n
But it amazes me even more that when I showed up early for my tire appointment, they fit me in so quickly I had my car and was on my way to work at essentially the time I would have normally have gotten in. As a colleague said, “how many times does THAT happen?” My answer? \u201cONCE. Just today.\u201d America\u2019s Tire, Mountain View, California<\/a>. Go check them out.<\/p>\n -the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Busy catching up on writing today, trying to get Chapter 1 of the rewrite of THE CLOCKWORK TIME MACHINE done, plus various small press tasks, plus writing documentation at work,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,199,194,1],"tags":[4,67,23,66,5],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-steampunk","category-the-cats","category-uncategorized","tag-dragon-writers","tag-gaslights-and-rayguns","tag-the-cats","tag-the-clockwork-time-machine","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2954,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions\/2954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}