Was talking to ANT (guy i work with at second job) about something and for some reason what we were talking about caused me to wax nostalgic

FLASHBACK

Time: around 1980

My mother passed away 2 years prior (I was 12 at the time) and my father remarried not too long afterward (to a family friend). Well, around that time there was a gum called Freshen-up, the square gum with a flavored gel in the middle, that i was hooked on. My father called it 'ishy-squishy gum.' Every time afterward, when we were at the dinner table and i wouldn't eat something, my father would say, 'Pretend it's ishy-squishy gum.'

I wonder whatever happened to that gum. I haven't seen it around anymore.

END FLASHBACK

I wonder if Master Card is regretting coming up with the 'priceless' slogan. You want to know why?

look here

WARNING: Not for the faint of heart, young of age, and ultra-conservative of mind.

Added another link to a great weblog. I really like his sense of humor (reminds me of me). If anyone is looking at this, check it out.

I found a kindred spirit of sorts while looking around the weblog community, and promptly supplied a link on my site. He isn't aware of it since there was no way of corresponding to him, and for the most part, he probably doesn't care. However, I liked his style and his way of thinking about weblogs in general (based on the description below the title) and I somehow feel the same way. I've seen stories about 'weblog community' singular, but the only 'community' I have seen thus far is if you are a part of the various weblog sites floating around the internet (journalspace, livejournal, et al). I guess there are some advantages to being free and independent to a certain extent.

I'm walking around work with a pencil behind my ear. I haven't done this in a while. I'm waiting for the creative gods to give me a burst of foresight so i can put whatever comes about to paper, then transfer to here.

Why in the world would you do that LC? All you have to do is type whatever it is on your mind.

If only it were that simple for me. However, my mind and thoughts streak in 100 different directions and i've yet to train myself to focus on one specific item. I feel like that imagery on the movie 'Hackers' when they're in the process of downloading the offending virus, but at first you see the words and symbols spread out and doesn't take shape until the file is completed. That's how my mind feels. I need something to focus on for it to take whatever shape i want it to.