Day Off

Today is a day off from the Insanity program and I'm feeling a little restless. Being a creative person, the part of life that inspires tends to come at me through a series of patterns.  While any traces of OCD are not noticed by most, patterns can definitely take me down the road less traveled.

Last week while in San Diego, I was wandering through Target.  Confession: I find a reason to go to Target in SD almost every morning during the week - it's silly I know, but whatever, it works.  Last week it was little grey athletic socks with colored bands running along the bottom of the soles and 1/2 price workout clothing. . .  Anyway, I was headed to the escalator with a nifty thermos that had a built in tea strainer and a roll of duct tape, and there was a fellow in front of me with one of the niftiest tattoos I've ever seen.  It was a series of complex circles running down his left calf, several of which were nested circles (think miniature solar system depiction) with dots and lines. 

Here is a sample of my art, hence the fascination with patterns:

I forced myself to say something to him, after all, how could I let this tattoo walk away without at least finding out what the circles meant?  He was a little startled at my compliment and replied that they were binary circles that translated to his last name.  How fucking cool is that? So, I raced back to my computer and looked up binary circles.  While the crop circle pictures and accompanying alien theorists were interesting, it didn't answer my question: how to translate binary circles into letters???

Get this, yesterday I received an email from a client and below here name was a series of zeros and ones that looked like this:

01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101100 01101111 01101111 01101011 01100101 01100100 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01110101 01110000 00100001

The wonderment that is google quickly let me know that the O's and 1's translated to my client's name. ONE STEP CLOSER.  By now you are probably bored and wondering what this has to do with the Insanity Program.  Nothing, but it is my day off and I'm more than just a gorgeous carcass in the making.

After sifting through more crop circle photos I found a site that explains how to translate the binary into a circle.  Sadly, it's a little over my head but I'm still working on it.