Man In The Moon

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is a manifestation of the Observer Effect. The idea is that the act of observation will create changes in the phenomenon being observed. This is already starting to happen to me because of this blog. Let me explain:

The other night as I was sitting behind my wife waiting for her to finish something on the computer so I could get back to it, I got a little bored. I picked up a nearby hair band and started aiming it at the back of her head as if I were going to fire it at her. I know, it’s stupid. My daughter saw me and immediately said, “You are going to slip and have a whole new post to write for your blog.” See what I mean?

Now that I’ve written about a few embarrassing events here, my family has decided to “help me” by giving me ideas for new material. It’s now become their favorite pastime to dredge up every single embarrassing event they can think of and then laugh about it to no end.

• “Remember the time dad was riding the grocery basket out of the store and flipped the whole thing over in the parking lot and we hid from him while he had to pick it all back up in front of everyone?”
• “Remember the time his crown fell out at the swimming pool and he was diving around looking for it and that kid had to help him find his tooth so he could go home and superglue it back into place?”
• “Remember that time we got lost in San Francisco for four hours and finally had to force dad to get directions from the guy at the gas station and it turned out that the guy didn’t speak English?”

Believe me, there’s a lot more, but you get the idea. The very act of writing this blog has changed various aspects of my life. Knowing that nearly any given situation might become the subject of a blog post here makes everyone–myself included–think more about what we say and do. There’s less natural reaction–if that makes any sense at all–and more thought-out reactions. I wonder if this happens to comedians as well.

It creates a kind of unreal home-life wherein everyone seems to be waiting for someone else to do something.  It’s like a game of Jenga where each person tries to pull out the block that will make the next person mess up.  I’m not complaining, mind you.  It just takes some getting used to.

Blogging about my life accomplishes several things for me:

• It relaxes me and puts me in a good mood.
• It allows me to look at things from a different perspective.
• It forces me to see the humor in almost any situation.
• It gives me new people to talk with.
• etc., etc., etc.

By the way,  I want to say a special thank you to all of you that are still coming here even though I haven’t posted anything for the last ten days.  Another recent change in my life is that I got a brand new client with a huge web project that’s taken a lot of my time.  I will really try to make sure that I don’t let those kinds of gaps happen here any more.  It’s that whole real-life thing that I mentioned previously. Now, if you’ve read all the way down here, then you get to know that I have a few videos that I’m working on for some upcoming posts.  One of them will actually show me–just in case you were ever curious about what I look like.  So, stay with me, and I’ll make up for my absence.

Lesson Learned:

If you don’t blog new stuff regularly, people stop coming.

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