The Doped Peddler

I don’t have much to say about the Lance Armstrong Artificiallystrong nonsense.  I just wanted to use that headline.  I’m sure the web is lousy with similar titles followed up by angrily worded articles on his betrayal of both his fans and the sport of cycling.

I care not of these things.

Our hero approaches sound barrier.

Our hero approaches sound barrier.

But, can you imagine how pissed the poor guys who came in second place must be?  They have the right to be angry.

Needled

Hanging off a branch atop a row of bushes that line the driveway is another branch, this one from the pine tree above and in the shape of a man with no head.  An omen from the majestic pine that my decapitation is imminent?

The last thing that fell out of that tree was the dried up husk of a squirrel that had died up there some time ago (from the looks of it).  Did it ignore a warning too?

I’m staying away from that tree – it has obviously gone bad.

On Resolutions And Regularity

Happy New Year!

The best way to get back into posting on a regular basis is to just start posting.  That’s all this is, so forgive its apparent uselessness.

I don’t do New Year’s resolutions.  I think they’re foolish, and almost expected to be either forgotten or ignored soon after they’re made.  And honestly, if something is important enough to you, you don’t wait to address it.  Resolutions are nothing more than an excuse to put off something you think you should be doing until the new year, and then when you fail or forget, an easy way to shrug it off.  After all, nobody really follows through with the damn things, so….

Having said that, it occurred to me I ought to try and post here more regularly in 2012.  Say, three times a week or so?  I’ve failed miserably so far.  Just about the time I’d finished putting this site together, and moving all the stuff from the Retro Jim blog over, some things changed for me “offline”.  That is to say, I don’t have as much time to post as I once did.  End of excuses.

So, my non-resolution is to resolve to actually offer up some posts here, and hopefully develop the audio version of Oddments that sparked the whole thing in the first place.  More on that later.

Thanks for sticking around through the silence.  If you’re a new visitor, welcome to the noise.