Here goes . . .

I have been thinking about, threatening, procrastinating about having a blog and finally am giving it a shot. Why now?

- having time on my hands (thank you Vassar for sabbatical) might make it easier to get in the habit
- there is a ton of stuff going on in the world
- I need to stop sending really long e-mails to my team
- I grow increasingly frustrated with Facebook and the sheer mass of nothing that it produces
- why not now?

"What better place than here? What better time than now?" - Rage Against the Machine

I really don't know where this might take me, and kind of like that about it. But it does presuppose a few things that may or may not be true or even valid. 

First, that I have something to say or that what I want to say has value. Well. I am never short of opinion and while it has no more weight or import than anyone else's, when I see and hear some of the opinions that are offered up in other media, I am encouraged to proceed. 

Second, that anyone will care. But who cares? Or maybe I should say I don't care.I will probably ending up addressing some stuff to my theoretical readers, but the truth of it is that it really isn't for that reader - if there are any - but for me. I like to think and I like to write and this lets me do both. And if anybody wants to read it, well far out. There is an argument that good writing has to be written for an audience, but that sounds like a topic for a future post.

Third, that is not just a self-serving exercise fraught with ego and bs. Well maybe it is, but you're the one reading it. 

I hope it will be random, fun, thoughtful, silly, provocative and other adjectives as well.

Here goes.