Going Off the Rails

Jenn and I were talking last night about, well, nothing in particular, and I took one of my random sidetracks as usual and she wondered why I had said something I did and how my train of thought had reached it. Stopping to think about it, I realize that I have very quick, very divergent trains of thought when it comes to conversations, and most of the time it has to do with a pop culture reference.

For example, this morning in the car I was listening to Kylie Minogue's Fever album, to the song Love at First Sight, and I suddenly wondered what ever happened to Crazy Daisy Ed...

How did I get there? It went something like this:
  • Heard lyrics to Kylie Minogue song: "I thought that I was going crazy / Just having one of those days, yeah..."
  • I wonder why she used "days, yeah" to rhyme with "crazy." That doesn't really work. What rhymes with "crazy?" "Daisy" works...
  • Crazy / Daisy...
  • Hey, I wonder what happened to Crazy Daisy Ed?


See how that works? That one was pretty simple. It's sort of like "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" - any thought can be connected to any other thought. Just like that.

I framed my Bières de la Meuse print last night using a frame I had been trying to find a use for. The frame was 18" x 25" and the print is 18" x 24", so I had to do a little trimming. The frame is metal, but I have this keen little saw and mitre box that worked just as well on metal as it does on wood. Yay, me! I didn't quite make the cleanest cut on one of the frame pieces, so I had to Dremel it down... but I think I either used the wrong bit or maybe just went a little too hard on it because now there's melted metal all over the bit and I've gotta get a new one. Oh, well. It was something to do that wasn't watching television, so I can't really complain. Plus, the picture looks really good in the frame, so all's well that ends well or something like that.

posted on Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:13 AM | Filed Under [ General Ramblings ]

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Gravatar # Re: Going Off the Rails
by Tanya at 8/22/2002 12:54 PM
Yeah, my mind works the same way. I'll often pop out with something really random, sometimes forgetting that my conversational partner wasn't in my head, and my friends will look at me for a sec, furrow their brow and go "where did THAT come from??". A tale like yours usually ensues.
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