i wrote this down I finally figured out why I needed a blog. It's for one reason, and one reason alone. But I can't remember the reason. Actually, the reason is that I forget things very quickly. If I don't write things down, I forget them. I need to make a grocery list when I buy more than two things, because I can't remember three things. I come up with a good variety of strange observations and ideas, but if I don't tell someone or write it down, it's gone in 15 minutes. I forget things so quickly that many times I don't even have a chance to write it down. By the time I get to the computer it's already forgotten. And to make matters worse, I can usually remember that I had a really good idea, but I can't remember what it was.

I believe that there is a direct correlation between the amount of odd things I notice and my lack of ability to remember them. Here's how it works. Every time I perceive something new or have a new idea, I need to find a place for it in my head. And in order to make that room I need to get rid of something else. Fortunately my brain works well enough that my email passwords and shoelace-tying ability have not yet been displaced. Usually it's just the last thing that I was going to write down.

So this blog is my way to document the things I won't remember otherwise. If you've noticed that it's kind of a mixed bag, well that's what you get with me. I'm what you might call "human." Sometimes my thoughts are funny, sometimes they are profound (not very often), sometimes they are unsettling, and sometimes you may not agree with me. But hey, if you didn't like it, you probably wouldn't be here. Unless you are on BlogExplosion, in which case you stopped reading after the first 17 words anyway.
  ¶ monger187 wrote this on 1/10/2005