As many of you may already know, I am very impulsive. If something strikes my fancy I will dream about it, sometimes I will do it and other times I will promote it and then never follow through. My life is like that on many levels. I will go through phases where I am all about the band, then where I am all about software development, then where I am all about the church, or even a couple of hours all about the latest video game. This one phase I bought up a bunch of domain names to start a new web company. Recently it has been getting a patent on a new language I have created. I have found the best impulses are the ones that actually lead somewhere. Take for instance my band Corporate Red. I was surfing the net a couple of years ago and on a whim decided to check out musicians.net . In it there was an ad for a lead guitar player. So on a whim I emailed the guy and the rest is history, all because I just had an impulse to do something. I suppose it is like that in my job hopping as well. I will get a call from a recruiter and on a whim I will consider it. There is just something very thrilling about looking to the future, dreaming, and trying to make something happen. The closest I have come to a current impulse coming true is happening this week. Yesterday I had a book idea with a coworker of mine to write a new book about something Microsoft will be releasing in May. So I was surfing and on a whim decided to visit a publisher's web site. They had a proposals section and I proposed the idea. All of a sudden I get a response that they are interested and they want a sample chapter. So here I am writing a sample chapter to a possible book that would give me my first writing credit. I am very excited and this time I could have a publisher keeping me in line to follow through. It just may happen.

Thought of the Day

"Let me tell you something, funny boy... You know that little stamp? The one that says New York Public Library? Well, that may not mean anything to you, but that means a lot to me. One whole helluva lot. Sure, go ahead, laugh if you want to. I've seen your type before -- flashy, making the scene, flaunting convention. Yeah, I know what you're thinking... Why's this guy making such a big stink about old library books? Let me give you a hint, junior. Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me.... Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change the world. What about that kid, sitting down, opening a book right now in a branch of the local library and finding pictures of wee-wees in The Cat in the Hat and The Five Chinese Brothers. Doesn't he deserve better? Look, if you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again. This is about that kid's right to read a book without getting his mind warped. Or maybe that turns you on, Seinfeld... Maybe that's how you get your kicks... You and your goodtime buddies... I've got a flash for you, joy boy. Partytime is over."

- Lt. Bookman, in "The Library"