The Summer Creativity Challenge

stale [steyl]
–adjective
1. not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
2. musty; stagnant: stale air.
3. having lost novelty or interest; hackneyed; trite: a stale joke.
4. having lost freshness, vigor, quick intelligence, initiative, or the like, as from overstrain, boredom, or surfeit: He had grown stale on the job and needed a long vacation.
5. Law. having lost force or effectiveness through absence of action, as a claim.
- verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
6. to make or become stale.
Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stale (accessed: June 07, 2007).

That is how I have been feeling. Stale. No wonder writing has become a ponderous chore as oppose to the joy it used to be. So, I am reaching for the obvious answer to my stagnant, boring state.

I gotta get out more.

To that end, Jennie and I are going to have an adventure every weekend throughout the summer. Some trips will only be as far as the metro area, some across state - some even to other states! (Maybe even - are you sitting down? - Wisconsin!)

And we're going to share our adventures with all of you! Right here at Jumbled Encephalon Noodle Salad. So come along as we travel each weekend to places unknown and unexpected. In fact, I have just pulled down the road atlas and opened it to Minnesota. I will close my eyes, point out my index finger and plunk it down on the map. Where the finger lands, we will go.

OK. Here goes nothing.

My eyes are closed. (I type really well with my eyes shut, eh?)

Here we go...

Plunk!

And the winner is... Henderson MN 56044.

Never been there. Should be cool!

We'll let you know how the first adventure goes.