Early Detection of Holidays Winding Down

It's one in the morning and I'm dwelling on a couple of problems: ringing in the ears, light-headed, fuzzy-brained, forgot what I was just thinking about, you know, the usual...

oh, and the number of things I've dreamed up that, it turns out, were already in development and were about to make someone else a lot of money. For example, sometime in 1997-98, I had been writing a screenplay, the working title of which was Set. Six months later, The Truman Show was released, with my premise intact...however I had planned for Terry Gilliam to direct mine. Next, I expect to see my Christmas invention in Walmart during the 2005 holiday season. I won't provide the details for my invention here, for obvious reasons.

Yes, I know. What am I waiting for? The real story to start?
"You never stop waiting for the real story to start, because the only real story, in the end, is that you die."
- Johnathan Franzen, "Caught" from The New Yorker

Anyway, the tsunami...hey, that word is more fun to write than it should be...reminds me that we ought to get to work on that Asteroid Early Detection System. Seriously, what the hell would we do if we had, say, a month notice that human life was about to be wiped out? What do you do with a month like that? I mean, Christ Almighty!

So, Happy New Year.