A Funny Thing Happened on the way to Work Today

As a product of the '80s, I am a big fan of Cheers.  So, hopefully you'll remember some Normisms.  These aren't to be confused with Clavinisms, Sammyisms, Coachisms or Woodyisms.  However, one Normism I remember quite well is his response when asked what he wanted as he headed for his barstool.  He said, "Well, I'll need something to do before my second beer, so how about a first beer?"  This is the sort of thing that goes through my mind on a regular basis.  So let me connect the dots as to how I arrived at this.

As most of you know, or hopefully know, I am working on a cookbook to demonstrate the many uses of our wine and beer jellies.  So, naturally I am always thinking about it when engaged in otherwise mindless activity, such as driving.   Most of the work on my book is complete, and I just have to tidy it up and work the kinks out of a few recipes.  Well, working the kinks out of recipes requires time in the kitchen, not behind the wheel.   Therefore, I was in the perfect position to "think" about what I still needed to do.  I don't know about you, but when I think, there is no linear process or straight line to my resulting conclusions.  My process resembles more of a road map with streets and highways curving and bending in all sorts of directions before arriving at a particular destination.  Insert Charlie Sheen joke here regarding my brain.

Anyway, my thoughts actually turned into a completely new idea.  A new concept for a different book, which would be my second book.  The problem remains though, I am still not finished my first book.  So, finally, and hopefully, you can see how I ended up thinking about Norm and Cheers this morning.  I need something to do before my second book, so I guess I'll have to finish my first book. 

Since I am capable of multi-tasking, I do have the ability to still "think" about my second book AND finish my first book.  I am actually considering using an open forum with user-generated content in addition to my own.  Moreover, due to the fact that my new concept will recognize the "subjectivity" of food,  I want to engage artists from other genres.  I am one who definitely believes that cooking IS a form of art.    Therefore, I will be very interested in the thoughts of my fellow "artists" for my second book.   For the moment though, I think I'll just finish my first book.

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