I Blogged in my Head for Years

My first blog: This is a long time coming. For at least the past ten years, I have been in the habit of scribbling down random thoughts and questions as they pop in my head. They might be on the back of a toll booth receipt, the back of a take out menu, or even the back of my hand, in a pinch. I've tossed all these notes in an old empty pickle pot for brining. Someday this was going to be my book.

About three years ago, I decided it was time to do something with all these scraps of paper. So I collected all my random thoughts (long before "25 Random Thoughts" circulated on Facebook) and got them all down on a Word document. There were easily 100. I would add to it from time to time, and share it with my employees, who would inevitably ask, "How do you even think of these things?" My reply was simple. "We all think of these things. I just write them down." Just like Andy Rooney and Erma Bombeck.

Suddenly about a year ago, the hard drive went kaput. Of course I hadn't backed it up. So long, years of thoughts. Years of "I Wonder Why..."

Fortunately, for me anyway, most things have to occur over and over and over again for it to become a random thought. So I continue to wait patiently as I recollect my thoughts. I know sooner or later, each one will pop in my mind, and I'll think, "Oh yeh, I forgot about the merging traffic thing." More on that later.