For a few years now, I’ve titled this blog with variations of “the second mouse gets the cheese.” Once, I even went into a convoluted justification for the name. But all this time (and even when I wrote that post), I knew the name just didn’t quite fit.

Well, problem solved! I woke extra-early this morning (Joshua screamed at 3:30–sounded like he had a bad dream or something) and couldn’t get back to sleep. Then the name just hit me: on the other hand! It’s a perfect description of how I think and the topics I like to talk to people about. I’m always playing “Devil’s Advocate” and trying to consider what others typically dismiss out-of-hand. Seems like a much better fit for me.

On top of that, it helps me to focus (or maybe that’s just the 4am cup of coffee). “Second mouse” didn’t really do much except encourage me to procrastinate, whereas the new title fits my most popular (and my wife’s favorite) posts. A nice side benefit is that I might finally be able to shed all the “mouse sings to cheese” traffic! (No, ma’am, I can’t e-mail you the video. I didn’t make it!)

Oh yeah, and I guess this means I get to start another blog redesign! (But not before Cosley… that would just be mean!)