I swear, the train is like my muse. If I ever get around to having time to write on a regular basis, I’m going to move to Toronto and just ride the subway all day. Stop at union station and get a bite to eat at lunch, then go down south, take the bloor/spadina transfer to the e/w train and ride it all the way to eglington station and back, every day, I’d love to ride the underground in London too, especially after reading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman There’s so many interesting names.. Earl’s Court, Blackfriars Bridge, Angel Station. Anyways, back to my inspirational thoughts. I have these two books, both by an author named Roger Von Oech, and they’re great, they’re about getting out of your rut (mentally speaking) and thinking creatively. And in it, he talks about one of his clients who, upon entering the shower every morning, had a 20 minute mental dump of ideas. It was the time of day when he was most creative and generated his new ideas. So he purchased a piece of Lucite and mounted it in his shower, and got a grease pencil so that he could note down all of his great ideas. Now, all the great Ideas I have come either when I’m a) asleep, or b) drunk. I remember the time I thought of sending out for teryaki wings on new years. Man, that was a great idea. But my brain seems constantly stuck in idle, especially once I get to my entropy pod at work, except when I’m on the train. Then I get to wondering and thinking and looking. Sometimes I do the crossword or one of those mental puzzles in the paper, that’s cool, expand my mind a bit. Sometimes I just stop and stare. But always I’m alert, feeing good and mentally there. I had a thought that I wanted to blog about last week and I filed it away to do so, but of course, I got to work and IT got to me. If only I could exploit a handy tesseract and find something interesting to do with my day. I’m available to save the world if anyone needs a hero, Monday-Friday, 7:30-4pm, Saturdays by appointment. Enough rambling.

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