A Blogging Start
I'm thinking about trying to blog semi-regularly. Maybe it'll help my writing skills? Maybe it'll help my state of mind. At the very least, it'll keep my friends up to date on my goings-on. We shall see :)

So, what shall I start with? Recently I've rediscovered (thanks to Annie and her book-addiction) the public library system. Highlightes are American Gods by Neil Gaiman, the latest Sword of Truth novel (sigh... does any long-running SF/Fantasy series *not* peter out after the 3rd or 4th book? Harry Potter excluded),  one of the later Callahan's books (see previous note... although these have stayed better than most), and Roger Zelazny's Isle of the Dead.  I used to be a big Zelazny dork, but haven't read anything of his in a long time.  And color me a big Spider Robinson fan... the man can weave a powerful tail (amazingly poor pun intended :) .

What else?  Seattle has been great.  Wonderful, in fact.  I've been meeting up regularly with some old Intel friends living up here, and playing *lots* of new board games (Alhambra - great, Goa - meh, El Grande - fantabulous, Caylus - undecided, and a few others).  The food here absolutely rocks (just had Dixie's BBQ today... wowwowowowo... this might be might favorite BBQ place of all time.... those who know me know how serious this statement is).  And living with Annie has been better than I could possibly have hoped.

Oh, before I forget, i have bone to pick with some of the internet community.  Recently a US Senator described the Internet as a series of tubes with information going through them.   He presented this when arguing against Net Neutrality.  Certain folks (Cory Doctorow, John Stewart, etc) have been ridiculing him endlessly for this.  Now, I firmly support NN and think that the Senator Stevens argument was silly, but his Internet metaphor was nowhere near bad enough to warrant this sort of asinine nitpickery.  In fact, when trying to describe the net's infrastructure to a layman, it's not bad at all.  Stop lambasting the man for this just because you don't like his argument or politics in general!  Cory is obviously a nut-case, but I expected more from Jon.

Ahhhh... that felt better.  i can see why folks like this blogging stuff :)

I think that's good enough for a first post... later ya'll.