Please forgive this for being the first post. Now, there's an ostentatious way to start a blog. I guess I'm not expecting to give it much more than a good ol' college try. According to the wisdom of Calvin & Hobbes, that means I'll take a half-assed crack at it and go have a beer. I'm not that ambitious; I'll probably give it a quarter-ass try and go work on my thesis instead. I call that my high school diploma try. As in, "If I don't get my thesis intro done, all I'll have to my name is a high school diploma." More to follow. Stay in touch....{Pshhhh...} End Transmission.