So I’ve started this insidious little creature known as a blog. I think about it all the time.
I start a thought and then immediately diverge to, “Hey! That would be a good thing to blog about.”
Then I start to compose the blog post in my head and realize it’s, at best, a sound bite worth of information and really isn’t getting anything accomplished in line with my goal for this blog.
So I discard the idea and move on to something else.
After a few seconds, the person sitting across from me who said something that set off the whole chain of events in my little mental detour starts to get a concerned look on their face. You know the look. That, “Hey STUPID! I’m over here.” Pretty soon, it changes to the, “Is he having a seizure” look and if left too long, it becomes the wake up slap.
I’m fully aware of my problem with shiny objects and my coworkers (and my wife to a certain extent) are familiar with the problem and exploit it often.
This new blog thought-hijacking that is going on is just disturbing.
I think I need to find a qualified blunt-trauma specialist to knock some sense back into my dome.
Nah. I think I’ll just take a cue from my daughter and talk until someone hurts me. If I use a tape recorder, I should get at least a month’s worth of blog entries out of it before I lose consciousness.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:00 am
>Nah. I think I’ll just take a cue from my
>daughter and talk until someone hurts me.
heh… but I’d say that’s part of your daughters charm as well as your own. You mentioned a quote one time from the movie “Strange Days”, where the villan says “Paranoia is just reality on a finer scale”. People like us think different, lot’s of things in our life are shiney. We’re ADHD commercials waiting to happen, but without the meds. Too much input bud. We’re bound to drop a few of those packets (or want to).
It’s one of the things I enjoy about you, and probably why we can end a conversation with “my butt itches, gotta go” and an abrupt hangup. And nobody thinks twice about it.
I was reading a book on memory. It said we receive approximately 10,000 inputs a seconds (sight, sound, touch) but our brain only processes 1-10% of that. We remember even less long term, unless it’s done repetitively or if wiring is different in some folk. That’s why keeping a blog is good IMO. It let’s us keep some of those shiney things a little while longer.
~ stevo
May 6th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Hey stupid – we’re over here
Waiting (semi) patiently for your next post…….
~Jamie