SOC Blog #5 - Float

Close your eyes, if you can. See the power in your hands.
Somewhere past the bright blue starts, lies Ventura boulevard.

So it is Wednesday. Hump day. Half way through... no one ever considers saturday night the "halfway point" of the weekend in a good way. We all long for our freedom from work, or responsibility, but we never seem to get it for very long. It is a fleeting moment of escape and then back to the realities of the world. None of us are immune to this, and you may not have thought about it, but the majority of things you do outside of your method of earning a living is escaping from your own life.

I've often tried to consider why it is I don't like to meditate and relax, and let my mind run free. I am the type of person who needs to be constantly stimulated one way or another. I even program during the day with my headphones on so that the right brain is stimulated with music while the left brain codes. I've developed this to the point that I can listen to speaking and program as well.

I guess I've been "practicing" this skill ever since I started working 17 years ago.. I always liked listening to music, and always liked to have it on, but it was only when I began working that I found it to be necessary. It's not an escape from work, but it amplifies the focus on work for me.
If I work on a piece of code over several days I can remember the songs which were on during different sections of it. Kind of an odd fact.

Here's something else you may not know about me. I aspire to eat very odd foods. I love the show on the travel channel where the host goes to exotic locales and eats strange things. When we were at petsmart one weekend I told the staff if they gave me a live cricked that I would eat it. A girl fetched one and put it in my mouth.

As I crunched down I felt a burst of liquid in my mouth. The odd part was that it did not taste bad at all. In fact, given the proper spices and seasonings I could see myself enjoying a dish made with crickets.

My favorite type of Sushi is Uni, which are the roe of Sea Urchins. It's an odd acquired taste and I'm not quite sure how I acquired it, but I think it has something to do with finding the weirdest thing on the menu and eating it. I also have eaten a whole deep fried fish, head, bones and all. It was absolutely delicious.

Now that I've made you all hungry it's time for me to start the day.

Peace.