I better blog or else they'll beat me...

I haven't been blogging. You know why? Neither do I.

Back when I had a column in the Orion, there was a point in time where I just didn't think that my opinion mattered for much. I mean really, I'm not an expert, or at least I'm not even slightly an expert in the things I talk about. So, the lady at the grocery store pisses me off, big deal. Happens to all of us. Is that blog worthy? No.

Jason, who knows a lot about music, writes about music. He even writes interesting anecdotes from his life. My life isn't really all that interesting. Eventful? Sure. In fact, at the end of the day, every day, I like to look back on the things that I've done and say, yes, that got accomplished. No matter h0w small. I used to make to-do lists, but the ammount of things that I put on the list was overwhelming. So, one day I decided that rather than make the list, I'd just do shit when I thought about it, and not put it off until later. That's why everyday, I can tally up the crap I've done and be happy about it.

However, this says nothing about the quality of my experiences, and in this realm I have to say that, unlike the Drivler or Avram, the shit that I do is pretty dull. You know what I did today? I moved a crib around my soon-to-be-born child's nursury. I went down to CVS and bought some kitty litter, I got a staple gun, some staples, a dimmer switch, I began work on another slab of ruined city--I suppose that's interesting, but only really in a war 40k way.

Let's face it, three people are reading my blog. Hello Lynn, Jason, Kyle. One of whom, I'm married to, and all three write much more interesting things than I do.

Now the other thing. Look folks, I'm supposed to be writing a novel. I mean seriously, I've been working on this thing since the turn of the millenia--even if I'd written a page every fourth day, I'd be farther along. Pile onto that, the Gravity's Rainbow paper I'm supposed to be writing, and you get some sense of the time I feel I'm wasting writing banal comments to three people who write more interesting blog posts than me.

So, what to say? I'm well. I feel healthy. I eat three times a day. Sometimes I listen to music. I'm trying to listen to this book on tape of A Light In August, but its hard to do because my wife, one of the three people reading this blog, can't stand the voice of the guy reading it.

Outside my house, though not right now, is the trinidad people painting my house, but all three of you know this, so what's the point of mentioning it here.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is this: Here! I've blogged already! I'll leave comments on your blogs soon so that I can at least be involved in an interesting conversation. Because let's face it folks (and by folks, I mean Lynn, Kyle, and Jason), the fact that I'm enjoying playing the Eldar in Dawn of War, just really isn't that frickin' interesting.