Sunday, August 31, 2008

The First Post

All my life, my brain has spent a good part of the day without adult supervision. While my boss is speaking to me on the phone, the gray matter is consumed with counting how many days until baseball season ends. Of course, when he asks a question, another part of my head comes up with a credible answer, so there must be a lot of stuff going on up there.

The exception? Audio input generated by my spouse (Kim). I often have trouble recalling what she said 10 seconds ago! (Even though it's usually incredibly insightful).

These postings will capture some of those meanderings. That way, the family can track my neural processes and accurately know when the time comes to put me away. I don't mean to set any expectation that you'll find useful and unique observations here. If you want that, check out my brother's blog to the right ... Vitamin Moose. When I say "manifesto of the mundane", that's probably a fairly accurate preview of things to come.

To provide visual oomph, Kim will provide occasional photographs to share. The first, a fine photo of a backyard tomato of which she is particularly fond, follows ...





And, here's a picture of our new hearth room in its' current state of interior design (more to come) ...


That's enough for today ... tomorrow: politics. Maybe ...