Here is my first post.  Wow, who would have thought that I would actually blog.  Me, who's ranted and raved about it for so long. Who in the world's got the time?  Which brings me to the next thing you need to know: I'm a ruminator.  Not the bovine kind, but the thinking kind.  I mull, I cogitate, I think and edit and cut and paste my thoughts in my head.  Therefore, you need to know that probably I won't post daily, maybe not even weekly.  I do have a lot of thoughts.  Things that make me mad, things that make me sad, funny things, perplexing things and as courtesy to you, the reader, I will take time to develop them and think them through, to grant you, hopefully, smooth reading.