So much nitwittery, so little time

Yes, I'm aware it's late July and I'm just now doing my first post of 2007.

I'm still unemployed, still looking for gainful employment. In the meantime, I've decided something.

I've been clipping articles from The Tennessean for months now, filing them away in an expandable folder labeled ISSUES. They're articles about a bunch of stuff that I'm interested in, from television to politics to dieting and so forth. Some are long pieces, like the two-parter they ran recently about fathers and DNA testing and child support. Others are small little single-paragraph things, like the one a few weeks back about the head of the VA resigning. Most of them are about things that, in one way or another, really piss me off.

I've decided that I'm going to start pulling out one of those articles every few days and I'm going to write about it. Whatever it was that made me want to clip it in the first place, that's what I'm going to write about. Then I'm going to post that essay (or whatever you want to call it) here. Then I'll pull out another article.

Call it practice for writing regularly again. Call it trying to become a better writer so maybe I can submit some of my work someplace. Call it... call it writing.

Yay Me!

I successfully edited my profile to add a picture (not of me, don't have any), changed my template from the brownish one I started with to this nifty blue one, and then edited said template to add links to some of my favorite sites and blogs!

This is a major accomplishment. I'm a total dimwit when it comes to all that stuff; I've always used FrontPage to do my websites so I wouldn't have to bother with html and ftp and whatever. But I think I'm getting the hang of this, so I'm going to try to post more often. Note the operative word: try.

Obligatory Welcome Post

Hi, and welcome to my blog. I'll be using the site to write about a bunch of things -- TV of course, both then (when I wasn't an "ex") and now; politics; issues I care about; personal stuff... basically, whatever comes to mind.

I probably won't be posting daily; there's too much else to do to worry about doing my daily post. I won't be doing posts that are just a bunch of links; if I have something to say about something I found someplace else, I'll link to it, but what you'll find here will be my thoughts.

Feel free to comment if you want, or not. Just don't do that comment-spam thing, 'cause I'll just delete your ass.

I'll most likely do several posts in the next little while, as I get the hang of using Blogger and work out the things I want to write about. So... hi, and welcome.