An Imperfect Storm

As my wife and I are in the planning stages for our return home to Texas, she tasked me with actually coming up with some plans. I responded that I had already finalized my plan, which was to not make any plans. Not acceptable. So I told her I would brainstorm some ideas and get back to her. Here is my list of Things I Want To Do, transcribed, unedited from my notebook.

• Get in better shape
• Something with chiles, beef or cheese (not soft)
• Improve my Chinese
• Be a Yakult rep.
• Make a table or workbench using mortise and tenon joints
• Buy a Leatherman
• Never have to prepare another resume
• Never teach in public school in the US
• A fusion barbecue and traditional Chinese tea shop
• Mesquite ranch / farm
• Be able to dunk again
• Never own a cell phone
• Have a NBA or college player come to my school in Taichung and give a basketball clinic.
• Wear a Lee Deng-Hui t-shirt to the Beijing Olympics
• Maybe a bubble tea shop place thingee
• Find a third person to play Red Alert 2 with Red A and myself
• Get a henna tattoo that says Henna tattoos suck! ( Actually tried this on vacation in Boracai, but was refused by all )
• Five-toed socks for my family ( This should be on my Christmas gift list but if I didn't write it down, I would forget about it)
• Taco Villa manager

I thought I started strong with a safe standard. Her nod of agreement turned into a facial furrowing of fury after the second one. I explained that my brain does not storm uninterruptedly. There are fluctuations. Sometimes it gusts, drizzles, freezes or just hits a dead calm.

I found out that there definitely are wrong ideas in brainstorming and that doing exactly what you are asked to do can be worse than not doing it at all.

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Coming soon - Schedules and information about the two upcoming baseball tournaments in Taichung. I thought one of the other hibernating contributors might want unlimber their fingers and take a stab at it, but it appears not.