My Rants and Thoughts

Some way to record thoughts right into our computers? I lay in bed at night and my mind goes a million miles per minute. I have this, my own blog which I post to, as well as another one called the console conspiracy and of course I write for my company's sites, and a couple other industry related sites. So I post regularly on quite a few websites. That's because my mind doesn't stop. If I could post just by sending my thoughts to the various sites I post on, I'd probably produce thousands more pages per month! I was thinking about it last night in bed. The way I see my mind is that there's 3 little men sitting in my brain. One on either side and one on the middle. The sides are either creative or analytical (just as the human brain is) and the center is the gatekeeper. The 2 sides compete for the attention of the gatekeeper, and he decides what I focus on. If the creative side wins, then I start thinking creatively. Lots of "what if"s come from the...

I love holidays - I just got back from a week of camping - no stress, lots of fun. Lots of beer, etc etc. Come bake here and the stress level rises as I get closer to home - back to normal life. It would be nice to have that relaxed holiday attitude for the other 50 weeks of the year. Why can't we? Why do we place ourselves under so much stress? I guess it's kinda like that joke where the high school principal walks up to the kid banging his head on the locker door. "Why are you doing that?" The prinicpal asks. "Because it feels so good when I stop." Was the answer.

I'm sitting here at my desk (on the 3rd floor of a new building - we just moved) and I can see the highway from where I am - it's just after 4 PM and traffic is already backing up. I don't understand where they are all going?