Category: ADD

I have come to the conclusion that I do not like pulling something behind my vehicle. I love the travel part, meeting new people, camping and new adventures, but I need to find someone named James to be the driver.

Within 2 hours I had been able to lock the phone, put up a message on the screen, locate the device and retrieve it without issue. Now losing my iPhone is a common occurrence for me. I use it several times daily, but when those are more like a ‘misplace’ than a lose. I misplace occurs when my hand puts down the phone somewhere in the camper or outside and my brain wasn’t paying enough attention to register when it got put. A lose is where I put it down in public – like on a shelf at a store or on the ledge next to a slot machine and then walk off. Sometimes it’s only minutes and other times it hours when I finally realize that I no longer have the device.

I think I’ve only had to invoke the insurance (for loss, damage is another story) twice. And one of those times the phone turned up in a tool box in the basement on the farm.

Anyway, it’s time to buy another iPhone leash.

<an hour later>

The idea is always to finish what I’ve started, but the last sentence above resulted in an ADD moment that I’d like to explain. These occurrences are never planned, they seem to just happen without my conscious knowledge. They occur hundreds of times per day. What is unusual about this one is that I have come back to the original task and am picking it back up again, which gives me the ability to walk through what happened in the hopes that it might provide some insight to those of you who observe how I operate. Here we go:

1. I typed ‘buy another iPhone lease’ in this blog article.
2. I remembered that I had signed up for the Amazon affiliate program and thought I would get an affiliate link to the leash.
3. I went to the amazon affiliates program page in a different browser window and saw a notice that my number was no longer connected to an affiliate account and to check my email for a potential reason.
4. I went to my email and searched for amazon affiliate.
5. An email from AWS came up stating that I had a bill. I didn’t recall having anything on an AWS account that would be generating charges so I logged in and checked, there was nothing.
6. I saw a link for a tutorial on how to create an app on AWS and I started the tutorial.
7. <the step ususally doesn’t happen>. I remembered what I was originally doing and came back to the post.

Now the interesting part here is that this is actually a post about New Orleans, not ADD.

Welcome to my world.

Anyway, back to New Orleans – New Orleans is SOOOO much better than Old Orleans.

I haven’t actually been to New Orleans at this point – I landed in an RV Park in East New Orleans and I’ve chosen to believe that I’m on a different planet at this point. When talking to people along my route I was always immediately advised not to walk anywhere, even in the day. The landscape here looks like, well – the aftermath of Katrina. It literally looks like a bomb exploded. There is debris everywhere, half torn down 5 story buildings, tons of housing developments that look to be fairly new that are abandoned – broken out windows, empty lots. The whole scene is rather depressing.

The RV park that I am is truly an oasis amongst the destruction. It’s all gated in, is very clean and has a hot tub and a pool. The clientele is on the high end for trailer trash, with the majority of campers being $50,000-$225,000 models.

There is a shuttle to the French Quarter that I’ll be hopping on today to get a better view and impression of this city. More later.