New Blog Strategy!!!

Well, the funny thing about falling behind in one's ambitious blog plans is that when you fall behind far enough, you sort of lose the desire to try to catch up since it seems so hopeless. Add to that all the new things that have happened in the meanwhile that get shoved to the back of the line to be forgotten as well.

That all said, I realize it is time for a change of plans. I have decided that rather than make my blog a chronological record of my daily goings on, I am just going to let it be one of moments of mood, stream of consciousness (or lack thereof), and flashbacks, when something from the past, perhaps an unfinished blog post, suddenly takes on new life in my mind. I mean does anyone really care if I am on a chronological schedule? I somehow, dear reader, doubt it.

So I hope you are are not disappointed, but it is the surest way to keep this noble project going. After all.....well, not sure after all what, but it is what it is, or at least what it is going to be. And if you find yourself confused as to what that will be, it will be posts about past or, increasingly, recent events, that I just have the urge to write about. Uh, Amen.

So pull out your antennae, and get ready for irregular, irrational (at times), and time irrelevant blog posts.

Yay!!! Over to your red leader one......

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