* are you getting at something Ken?


  *close - real close to something. Probably a model of "Being
  Alive in the near present" involving water buckets of
  information being thrown at us, caught, sorted to other buckets
  internally, other water buckets tossed out, with a bit of
  free-will and choice in the middle of it all.... and not losing
  any water in the process, but having some of it transformed into
  ice or somethin.