I just can’t think deep anymore, or at least think of several things at the same time.  This is a departure for me.  I have worked in the hustle and bustle of a newsroom for a long time now.  I have written lead stories under the gun with scanner squawking and producers stopping by every ten seconds to see how I am doing.  I have had three or four stories on my desktop simultaneously with the phone ringing and still had cranial bandwidth to listen in on the conversation someone else was having and make a well timed snarky quip.  I can run 5 weather computers while my cell phone bleeps away and people run in an out of the studio with Oprah up at full volume.  In TV you get good at this, and in fact I think there is a thrill to it.  I kinda like it.

I don’t know what is happening to me once I leave work.  Now, I am turning off the TV at home just to listen to a phone conversation intently.  I am increasingly annoyed when people talk during TV shows I watch (there aren’t many, so you have to work at it).  Don’t even get me started about how my mother watches TV.  “Who is that?  That is the guy who burned that building down.  What do you think he is going to do next?  I don’t like him.”

I like writing my blog at home before work.  My roommates are gone, and I can sit and look at the ocean and occasionally creative thoughts will actually come to the front of the transom, but clearly not today.

There is nothing wrong with a little thought.  Einstein famously commented that if you continually fill your head with the thoughts of others you’ll never have one of your own.  I suppose there is great irony in even quoting that, LOL.  I don’t think Albert had Facebook though.  Could you imagine his status updates: “Spooky action at a distance.”

My brain is a single core processor.  I think you take in what you can and at some point output something after processing.  I don’t think constant inflow or outflow is good.  Occasionally a reboot is needed.

My roommate just came back and turned on the TV.  That is it for this post.