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Several things happened today.

1. It is my "Friend's" birthday.

2. I have started my new book.

3. There is nothing to write here

Pertaining to #1--

Happy birthday again! I would say "You know who you are!" but seeing as how you have never seen the site, you probably don't care that it is here!

Pertaining to #2--

I started reading "A Nomad of The Time Ssreams - A Scientific Romance" by Michael Moorcock this afternoon. It is the first book in my 100 books in a year goal. I am working on putting a page together that lists the title, author, number of pages, date started, amd date completed so all of you out there may track my progress. I will also put down my opinion of the book in question as an added bonus. I might make the title a link to another page that has reviews or something cool like that.

Pertaining to #3--

Why did you even bother looking here???

Also. While I was cleaning at work tonight, I remembered the bit about a "S.E.P. Field" from "Life, The Universe, And Everything" by Douglas Adams (Yes, that trilogy will be up there on the list too! look for it!). Basically the theory behind a S.E.P. (Someone Else's Problem) Field is this:

You see something that clashes with your comfortable view of reality, and your brain says "That is really odd and wrong! I will pretend that it is not there and let someone else deal with it!" The human brain then filters the object completely out.

Here is the scene: about 4 feet inside the door, behind the counter at work. placed in the approximate center of the aisle. Right in the way (We are talking "knock it over or walk around it" in the way). Standing upright on the bristles. Balancing perfectly.

My test was simple. I stood a broom up. Then I walked off. I kept an eye on the broom.

A few minutes later, a co-worker came walking through. He walked right around the broom. I waited a few minutes to make sure he was not going to grab it or anything and then walked up to him. I said "Did you see the broom or did your brain say "Hmm...That broom is standing up. That is not supposed to happen. I will therefore pretend like it is not there!" and then proceed to filter it out."

His response was "What broom?"

I pointed. He looked. Then said "Filtered it out." and went back to what he was doing as though the broom was not even there.

I left it there. Another co-worker came by. Walked around it 4 times at least in the course of 10 minutes. Shortly thereafter he was freaking out because he could not find it, and I was laughing so hard that I almost hurt myself.

Gads. One would think that you could invade a country in a similar fashion. Give your army pink uniforms, then station them strategically throughout the capitol city. What would you think if you saw some random crumb-bum dressed in pink standing on a street corner? You would probably pretend that he does not exist. Which is perfect for the invaders! At the specified time come strolling into wherever the government is and say "Oh, by the way. It would appear that we have you surrounded. Feel free to surrender."

Wow. I almost feel like I would have a future in the Army. I actually happen to know that I WOULD if ever I wanted!

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