Neanderpundit

A spare thermocouple for your furnace and water heater? Why not?

When you wake up in the middle of the night, do those ideas seem perfectly formed springing forth from your head? A blogpost of perfect clarity to change the world, and you grab the pen and paper that is on the nightstand for this very purpose, and make a few notes so it all comes flooding back on the dawn, at which point you grab the notebook and run to the computer and you read:

buttefly(sic) (squiggle dash airplane looking thing)chocolate covered(hashtag bullet accordion)Denveromelette with raspberries(squigglesquiggle bird with stunned expression)!!!!!

It all seemed so clear at the time.

As Paul said yesterday. I have so many irons I the fire I don’t know which one to shove up my ass next. In between one emergent issue and another, my dear old friend and confidant Mlle Jenny said “I would listen to Bela Fleck play scales” I think I might too. it’s what I had as background music as I traffic jammed my way home last night. Here’s a sample:

I especially like Sam Bush at 2:25: “Two old men playing in the grass, one has his finger up the other one’s HEEEYYYYY!!!”
Hope your day goes well. I merely hope to survive mine.