I changed my mind

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Good grief! It's almost two months since I last posted anything but a comment here. Feel free to lie and tell me that you missed me. Through most of January and February, my head wasn't really in the right space for happy posting. I just didn't have the will or the way to burden you with drivel that at times threatened to take an even darker turn than usual. So I took a break, read a lot of interesting things, adopted a cat, had a birthday, and generally just got on with the business of day-to-day living. Don't blame me, though; blame my brain. It shifted mode and there wasn't much I could do about it. If this happens to you you'll understand what I mean, but in the happy case that it doesn't I'd best explain. There is some evidence that each of us has a dominant way of thinking. A large majority of us are predominantly logical thinkers, able to draw on experience to recognize and solve small problems but otherwise happy to let others make big decisions and solve big problems on our behalf. About one in eight people are predominantly creative. These are the artists and writers, inventors and philosophers, as well as the plain ordinary folk (like me) who tend to see almost everything a little differently and are a pain in the neck at meetings. Finally, fewer than one in twelve people are naturally inclined to favor evaluative thinking. These tend to be decision makers, often long on confidence and short on conscience, and the type most likely to become our CEOs, politicians and serial killers. Anyhoo, to cut a long story short, my creative brain took a holiday and my logical one took over for a while. I always know when this happens because I'm able to win long chains of Freecell games without raising a sweat. While most folks are pretty content to go through life this way, I sink into a morass of confusion and hopelessness, and no-one wants to read about that. Happily, my old brain is now back in control and although I'm not much good at Freecell any more the world doesn't seem quite so unfathomable. Fair trade. Time I started writing again.