I was in the middle of my workout this morning, when an idea came to me for what I thought would be a great topic for a blog post.
I didn’t have any way to write down or record the idea at that moment, but I repeated it to myself a couple of times, and assured myself I would write it down as soon as I completed my workout.
Well, I finished the workout, and then several hours later I remembered that I had had a good idea for a blog post during my workout, but by then I had completely forgotten what it was.
So as a result, you are stuck with reading this nonsense of a blog.
But you probably already knew that would be the case when you clicked on my site, after all, it is called Borden’s Blather…
*image from StartUpNation
Yeah, I should have know this would happen, but I forgot the name of your blog.
I think you may have missed a great opportunity to write a post about memory and aging.
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OOh the things that happen to you old folk! LOL! But yes, I think he do your suggestion for a post, if he remembers.
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Hmm. And what was my suggestion?
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It was a post about how he is giving away beachhouses to his faithful readers! 😊
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Wow. And I don’t even like the beach.
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What??? You don’t like the beach!!!
Well, hey that is fine, for I will take yours which means I get 2. Did you hear that Jim I get 2 beachhouses! Thanks!
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What if mine is a cardboard shack next to a sewage treatment plant?
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Nooo….he said beschhouse, not shack! Your memory is going!
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Yes, he did say “beschhouse.” And you didn’t know that means “cardboard shack”?
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I mean “beAchhouse!” And No if you look in Webster’s Dictionary, its not a cardboard shack! 😛
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What if it’s a beachhouse that’s fallen over an eroded cliff?
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…mmm…!!
Then you can have that one!
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Okay. And you can have the one it fell onto.
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You really aren’t helping, smartie! I am trying to get a really nice beachhouse!
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Then you’d better move it. Quick!
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I don’t have it yet!
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Too bad. You must be feeling very nervous.
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Well I wasn’t…until someone ….! I think I am going to smack my head down on the pillow now!
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Good night.
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Good Night and perhaps I will wake up to 2 beachhouses tomorrow! 🙂
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Not if I can wake up first, and intercept them.
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They might be on Baltic Avenue…
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Haha! I always got stuck with Baltic Avenue!
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It could be worse – you could be stuck in jail…
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Yes… that would be worse …. though surely some good friend would bail me out!!!???
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If I win the lottery…
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Here ya go!
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My advice then, is to do what I do, play the lottery… 🙂
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I see that’s working out really well for you! LOL!
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It only has to work out once…
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And then you will remember all your faithful readers, right? 🙂
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But of course…
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That’s a house boat…
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Well, as long as it floats.
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And if you could attach a motor to it, that would be kind of cool…
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It’s all about the location; the building materials are kind of irrelevant…
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Says you, not me! 🙂
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🙂
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How close is the beach?
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So close you can smell it.
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And what is the “it” you are referring to?
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The sewage treatment plant. I thought that might be where the beachhouse was, that Carolyn says you’re giving away. After all, why would someone give away a beachhouse that’s next to the ocean?
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You all are hopeless!
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I don’t know, I think Jim might be hoping you take that beachhouse off his hands, so he can get away from the sewage treatment plant.
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And why would I want a house by a sewage treatment plant?? Nope, he can keep that “beachhouse” because I am so kind, I won’t take it away.
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Too late, the transfer was made at the county office… It’s all yours…
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Its my lucky day isn’t it!
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But that’s where they make tapwater. Consider all that healthy cleaned-up tapwater you’d be so close to.
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🙄
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I’d even throw in a signed, bound collection of my 1,000 favorite blogs from Borden’s Blather.. 🙂
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Wow, and all for free.
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He is so amazingly generous isn’t he!
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Yeah. I guess it’s not what you know, but who you know.
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It’s a limited time offer…
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“Haha!”
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The beach houses a re those little green Monopoly houses – the game is set in Atlantic City…
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I wouldn’t settle for anything less than a red hotel.
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First, you need to have a few green houses…
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I guess that’s okay. Green houses are good for growing vegetables.
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No problem, now you have two little green houses from Monopoly…
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…mmm..!! 🤚😶
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I don’t know what’s rarer, unicorns or someone not liking the beach…
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I lived near the beach when I was growing up. I got tired of all the gray, overcast skies, and cold, dank, ocean breezes. Now I’m a desert rat, and I love it.
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Talk about doing a 180!
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Yeah. I learned at a young age that I prefer to be warm and dry.
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I like warm…
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But even with gray skies you can still smell the salt air, and hear the waves and the sounds of the seagulls! 🙂
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True, and that’s all very nice for a few hours. But after that I’m ready to get back to the desert.
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They all have their beauty in their own way. I would like to explore the desert someday. 🙂
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Put it on your bucket list. It does have its own beauty.
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So if my husband and I would happen to make it out to your desert someday would we get a private tour? 🙂
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I suppose that depends upon which desert you make it out to. If it was the Taklamakan or Serengeti, I doubt I’d be able to give you a tour. But if you make it out to the southwestern edge of the Mojave, we might be able to work something out.
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I don’t think we will make it out to the Serengeti! 🙂
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It is a little far from PA.
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Just a tad! Though I do think it would be awesome to see!
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There’s a lot of jackals there. You must watch out for jackals.
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I like jackalopes NOT jackals! So yeah, guess I won’t visit.
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Oh, then you’d love it here. We have lots of jackalopes. They’re so common, they’re almost a pest.
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LOL! So you guarantee that I will see one if I come?
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Yes. But often it’s hard to know if you’ve seen one. They’re very fast.
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I would guess unicorns and jackalopes have a special relationship…
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It’s all part of the magic of the desert.
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I think the best thing to see would be the mirages…
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How will they survive the Serengeti on their own?
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Not my problem.
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Good point…
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Thanks for caring, unlike a certain someone!
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I’ve been to the Arizona desert once, and it was beautiful…
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I love the saguaro cacti in that state.
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That Was one of the things that impressed me as well…
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But wait, the desert has snakes, spiders and scorpions!
I prefer my seagulls and dolphins. 🙂
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Ditto…
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But the desert also has roadrunners, quail, and coyotes. The ocean has sharks and jellyfish.
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Welllll you may have a point there. I would enjoy seeing a roadrunner and some quail. 🙂
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The coyotes are nice, too. What do you have against coyotes?
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Oh gosh, I thought you may notice that! I don’t know, perhaps the fact that I would rather not be in danger of getting bitten???
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No, they don’t bite. They just nip a little.
No, they don’t even do that. They’re very shy. Of course there are anecdotal tales of people being attacked and horribly mauled, but it’s very rare. Probably happens less than one in ten encounters.
A few weeks ago, a coyote ran up our street while we were sitting on our front porch. It stopped at our driveway, which is circular, then ran through the driveway, coming past us within a few feet. It didn’t even seem to notice us. I love encounters with nature like that.
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Well I may have to change my view about coyotes. 🙂 I do agree that encounters with nature like that, knowing you aren’t in danger are always cool!
Does that happen often at your house?
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I guess it was looking for the roadrunner…
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Come to think of it, it was wearing roller skates and had a rocket strapped to its back.
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That never seemed to end well… for the coyote…
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No, the poor bastard.
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I always felt bad for Wile E.
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Me too. They should have let him eat a roadrunner now and then.
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Or have the anvil land on the roadrunner every once in a while…
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And some products from Acme…
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I agree. It is a magical place…
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I can give away all the houses I’ve bought playing Monopoly – those were all at the beach…
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Umm…. I wasn’t exactly thinking of Monopoly houses!
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All those little green houses, scattered all over Atlantic City?
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Aren’t you sooo clever! 😛
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To check my stats more often…
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But at least I remembered that at one point during my workout I had an idea…
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I can’t use up two good ideas in one post, so maybe I’ll write about memory and aging at a later date, if I remember…
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Don’t you have your cell phone?…voice memos or send yourself an email. Your readers are counting on you and expect a better customer experience. This will surely be reflected in your stats 😊
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I didn’t think of the voice menu option…
And my readers should know by now what sort of customer experience to expect from a blog that has the word blather in it…
And we’ll see what happens with the stats… 🙂
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The same thing has happened to me a couple of times. Your idea will come back. When I remember my ideas they never seem as brilliant as I first thought they were. I hope your luck is better.
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I hope it comes back; it’ not like I’ve got a lot of extra ideas running through my head 🙂
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Too funny! It may come to you next time you work out though. We call it going back to our remembering spot 🙂 (just take a paper and pen with you next time)
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I’ll let you know if it does; sort of like returning to the scene of a crime…
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Oh my, the worst ones are when you’re SO SURE you’ll remember that great big idea, and you go get a cup of water and the idea’s gone before you finish drinking.
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I know that feeling all too well! 🙂
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Your forgetfulness led to this whole sequence of events. You should have seen my brilliant comment on your great post. Pretty soon word would have gotten out on the street, and there would have been an avalanche of hits. Then WordPress would not have been able to keep up with your rising statistics. Oh well, shoot for tomorrow.
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I’d happily be a one-hit wonder, with one million views in one day. I might even reward myself with a day off if that ever happened. And if the quality of my posts were ever up to the quality of your brilliant comments, then I’d be comparing myself to Hemingway…
I’ll be giving it another shot today, and tomorrow, and the day…
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You should record a voice note. Or dictate your ideas while training.
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SomEone else suggested a voice memo; I’m going to have to look into using my phone to do so. Thanks for the idea!
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I do that all the time! 🙂
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It seems like we are not alone!
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Welcome to my world…
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There’s a lot of people in this world!
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That is so strange, Jim! I was sitting at my desk yesterday and thought of a great comment for your blog, but by the time I finished my project, I forgot what it was. So, all you get is this crappy comment! 😁
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I guess that means your comment matches the quality of the post… 🙂
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I do this often and promise myself I will remember it and pfft! I also write things on small scraps of paper that I find wherever I am when the brilliant idea comes through and lose them or find them months later when cleaning something out. clearly I need a better system, but I do always get a laugh out of finding them later. I so understand your angst –
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I’ve tried something similar a few times, and on more than one occasion, my note to myself was so cryptic that I had no idea what it was referring to…
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exactly
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Ha ha, liked this Jim. Story of my life too….cheers
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I guess that means it happens to the best of us!
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Ha! Been there…
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The post might not have been great but the comments are awesome and if you are giving away beach houses?
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There are a couple of commenters who are having some back and forth fun… 🙂
I may have run out of beach houses; I’ll see if I can get some more…
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It fun.. I like it… 😀
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I always write down my ideas because I have a horrible memory and always forget stuff in like 5 seconds!
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I guess I need to be more organized, and ready for an idea to come to me at any time…
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Oh my god I go through this a lot! And when it happens I’m so pissed off I stay away from blogging until I cool off… which usually takes a day or three 😄
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I’d never blog if I reacted like that, since it happens so often! 🙂
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Hahaha 😂
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I have days like this. Almost every day.
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it seems like we all do!
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