Tuesday

I broke a nail one week ago today. I was reaching into a cupboard and I caught the top of it. My thumb nail bent in half. It bled a little and I had to cut it off. I don't think my thumb nail has been this short in 5+ years. 

I finished the first draft of chapter one of my story this week. I'm working on some revisions right now and having some people other than Carrie read it. Let me know and I'll email you it if you want. 

Can a story about bringing people back from the dead be logical? Give me some thoughts in the comments. 

Peter Pan

You know that scene in Peter Pan where Wendy give Peter and thimble and calls it a kiss. Right after this he says, 'I want to give you a kiss' and she puckers up? Is that not how it's like interacting with women sometimes. They give you one thing and expect that same thing to be different (better) when you reciprocate. All while you're basing your actions of whatever definition they established in the first place?

I'm not saying this to complain about my wife (seriously). I was laying in bed and that scene popped into my head and I just laughed. 

Unrelated: I got a job! 

A Clean Face is a Safe Face

When did it become creepy to have facial hair? No respectable person looks like ZZ Top and I've been told that my beard is potentially off putting. 

Looking at the past Presidents of the United States I see a rough estimate of social acceptance. Our first 16 Presidents were all clean faced. Abe Lincoln was the first with any kind of facial hair. All but two of the next 12 had weird, crazy hair patterns. Woodrow Wilson reestablished the hairless trend.

What was so different about 1860-1914? Why hasn't one President in the last 100 years had as much as a mustache or sideburns? What do you think?

 

See the timeline 

Classical Conditioning

I love cereal. It's probably my favorite food. It's convenient, pretty edible, and involved milk. I've wondered (and discussed with Carrie) whether my love for food that won't melt my brain is simply because it's so tasty, easy, and covered in cow lactation or because I grew up seeing Tony the Tiger statues downtown and knowing people who watched in be made in factories and made up those excellent promotions on the back of the box. 

What do you think? Have I been persuaded by my immediate surrounding or is cereal just that good? Do you like cereal? 

Maybe it was just the sweet smell of Fruit Loops every time I went outside as a kid?

A quest

This post has traveled through time. I wrote this at 1:30 last night, but it published at 3:50 this afternoon. A list of predictions of things that happened overnight:

a. Someone famous died. From being old. I'll say Hugh Downs. 

b. The Dow is down 200 points for some reason.

That's all I have for now. Enjoy my vision for the future. 

19 years.

My parents were married 19 years ago today. Nice. 

Also, watch the video and note that every man in it was completely shaven before using the Mirco Force

A New Hope

I used to blog a lot but stopped a year or two ago. I've been interested in writing lately and even have a secret blog and major writing project in the works. I thought I'd start a new blog sans pseudonym. Here is that blog. I hope to write daily. Go ahead and add my to your RSS reader or bookmarks or whatever. Thanks you.