Weird, but cool-- and just plain weird.

Hey people. This first Weird Wed item falls into the amazing category, more than the usual run of the mill "weird" zone. A friend sent it to me, and with how helpless and kind of hopeless I've been feeling this week, it kind of came along at a good time. Check it out:

A palindrome reads the same backwards as forward. This video reads the exact opposite backwards as forward. Not only does it read the opposite, the meaning is the exact opposite. This is only a 1 minute, 44 second video and it is brilliant. Make sure you read as well as listen forward and backward. This is a video that was submitted in a contest by a 20-year old. The contest was titled "u @ 50" by AARP. This video won second place. When they showed it, everyone in the room was awe-struck and broke into spontaneous applause. So simple and yet so brilliant. Take a minute and watch it.

Maybe there is hope yet huh? This resonates more with how I usually feel about things. I think I'm just having an off week.

Something is going on tomorrow that is bound to be pretty darn weird. Some of you who only know the present day me might be surprised to learn back in my regular job days I actually took "my career" very seriously. I didn't do art, had set that aside as something I was good at but was useless, and only wrote procedural or policy type stuff. I had, like, a whole staff of people etc. At one point I had 18 employees (it was a small company, not, you know, 3M or anything).

Okay-- yeah, that was never really my style. But I was intent on being "the best," and eventually became known as someone who could fix problems. I was given the most problematic locations, and employees, at one time assigned to reprogram a demoted manager. I was all about operations (policy), and gross profit margins, and motivation.

Totally weird to me now.

Anyway, I'm supposed to get together with a bunch of ex-employees of this company tomorrow night. I have no idea if anyone there will have been from any of my staffs, or if I'll even remember them. But it will be pretty freaking weird getting tossed back into that world for a night. The blue hair is bound to freak some of them out.

Glad I can just go back to my new life afterwards.