http://www.thenextstopwillbe.com ...whatever crosses my little mind. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:05:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday's post reminded me of a joke that my Dad's been telling for as long as I can remember. It goes like this: Last night I had a dream that I swallowed a giant marshmallow. I woke up this morning and my pillow was gone. http://www.thenextstopwillbe.com/2008/08/12/funny-flashback/ I rarely remember my dreams and I have a theory as to why that is. I suspect it's because I don't use an alarm clock so my natural sleep patterns aren't interrupted. While that might explain my lack of dream memory, it doesn't answer the question of why I wake up ... http://www.thenextstopwillbe.com/2008/08/11/dream-theory/ This scene from The Hudsucker Proxy by Joel and Ethan Coen does it for me. Roger Deakins, their director of photography, should have received an Academy Award for the sheer beauty and exuberance of it. I love how the young boy is tapping his foot in time to the hoop ... http://www.thenextstopwillbe.com/2008/08/02/how-do-you-define-genius/ My desire to read comes in waves. I'll read a bunch of stuff then I kinda drop off and not read so much. I'm in a bit of a pickle though cause I'm at the crest of a reading wave and I got nothing on the bookshelves that interests me. ... http://www.thenextstopwillbe.com/2008/08/01/me-want-read/ I got a shock this morning from the old mainframe in the attic. I had to check out a website at work that I haven't visited in over a year and somehow my brain managed to recall both the username and password. How the h*ll did that happen? It wouldn't have ... http://www.thenextstopwillbe.com/2008/07/29/not-bragging-just-saying/ One of the treats from my recent trip to Chicago was a visit to the Leaning Tower of... Wait for it... Niles, Illinois! It's true. There's a half-scale replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in a small city just outside Chicago. But the story gets better. Behold The Leaning Tower ... http://www.thenextstopwillbe.com/2008/07/12/the-leaning-tower-of-niles/ I stopped posting the songs that were in my head upon waking because they invariably became songs that I'd heard the day before once I started noticing them. It was like Schrödinger's cat applied to music which says that the mere act of observing an experiment changes its state. Morning ... http://www.thenextstopwillbe.com/2008/07/11/morning-song-returns/ So I was all primed to write a post this morning, riding my occasional high of exercise and caffeine but then a terrible thing happened. I got busy at work. Huh?!?! It's true! My busy'ness then proceeded to consume all of my morning and most of the afternoon. The result? Now ... http://www.thenextstopwillbe.com/2008/07/10/high-hopes-and-then-not-so-much/ Sugar must be placed in the mug prior to pouring. Milk or cream, however, goes in after pouring. I'm sure I have other rules for coffee but that's all I can think of right now. Ps. It's amazing how exercise can stimulate your mind. Or maybe it's just the caffeine. Either way, ... http://www.thenextstopwillbe.com/2008/07/08/ocd-guide-to-coffee/ The blog has been a little neglected for the past week or so. The big news is that *E* closed on her house and bought a car. CRAZY!! We're both a little overwhelmed by the enormity of it all but we're working through things a step at a time. I ... http://www.thenextstopwillbe.com/2008/07/02/pardon-the-cobwebs-aka-cobbys/