Anybody who visits this site realizes that it’s an aggregator of my favorite blog posts.  I don’t normally post here.  But today I have to rant.  Not at anything in particular, more at myself.

I’m sure you’ve had this happen to yuo – everyone does.  You wake up from a dream, whether in the middle of the night or in the morning and think to yourself “that’s a great idea, I should write that down” only to realize that you a) don’t have a pen or paper next to you or, b) realize it’s too dark to see to write it or c) by the time you solve a) and b) you’ve forgotten the idea.

Well that happened to me last night.

You see, we’ve been having issues with our websites.  I think someone is trying to hack or DOS us, so our sites have been suffering.  Not going down, just really slow.  And when they get slow, I get IM’s emails and text messages on my phone.  So imagine my (lack of) surprise when my cell phone rang it’s annoying “you have a new text” chime at 4 AM.

Of course I was deep asleep and (sad enough) dreaming about work.  You know it’s bad when you even dream about work meetings.

Anyways, in my dream I had one of those great ideas, but as usual, no pen or paper nearby so I made a mental note to remember it.  Sometimes this works for me but today, sadly it did not.

I remember bits of the “idea”.  It had to do with tracking visitors that come to our site and how they use it – what pages they view, how long etc.  (I know – lame. But like I said – was work related).  I also remember it was a simple idea – something we could implement very easily for little cost and overhead and it would provide us a wealth of information.

Now, I know what you are saying – it’s my fault for not keeping that pen and paper on my night stand, but in my defence I must tell you that I have done that in the past – kept the pen and paper nearby. And I have even used it, only to wake the next morning to chicken scratch which is impossible to decipher, or something like “red tomoatoes”.  WTF??? Could it be any more cryptic?  Obviously I knew what I meant at 3 AM but in the light of day – not so much.

So here I sit, at my desk at work (yes I’m writing this at work.  Shh don’t tell my boss.  Or better yet – do tell.  Maybe then I won’t have to hear my cell phone go off in the morning ever again) trying to remember this great idea.

And why is that? The harder you try, the further away the idea seems to get?  It’s like the friggin’ thing has legs and knows I’m in pursuit and says “Uh uh – you’re not going to catch me that easy”.

So that’s my rant – I do feel a little better now, but still don’t remember that great idea.  Too bad cause I think there were a few of them in the “meeting”.