Phisherobilia Remixed

It - this rabbit hole - started with a song that was on the tip of my memory's tongue. The song was part of an instrumental mood station that Almighty Google offered up for the 'mood' of working: epic film scores. Who doesn't want the word "epic" in the title of anything...let alone the purposeful intent of "designing for a moment" - a term shamelessly borrowed from a friend and fellow journeyer, Jason Osburn . Typing along to the beautifully recognizable crescendos of "The Imperial March" and music from Batman Begins, the song "Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor)" stops me from my work. Instantly familiar but not from the movie for which it is epically scored. It took the better half of a day, crowdsource help from the brilliantly everything Jason Croft , and a trike ride around my neighborhood before the context dawned on me: "Sunshine" was the background music - BACKGROUND music mind you - for a YouTube video I listened to ...

#BreakingNews: my brain moves a mile a minute. And this is the justification I'm going to use for what's coming next. So, I pull up to #CityCentral, get out of the car, shut the door, and have that #BrianRegan "oh, no, today's the science fair" moment. I locked my keys in the car - which is a first. I've driven off with the gas hose still in my tank - those things are engineered surprisingly well by the way - but have never locked in my keys. Panicked, I go into the office and go right to one of the members, Marcus , for help. He's fantastic and one of those "gets stuff done" type of guys. We're (he's) messing with shims and hangers for a couple of minutes; I'm getting increasingly uncomfortable with the awareness that it's 346 degrees outside and Marcus has A LOT of work to do. This is when my dear friend, Raj , pulls up for a meeting. He assesses the situation and asks where the keys are at. I point to where my R2-D2 keych...