First Post

Well, here it is. My blog. Let's see how long it takes for people to find this without being linked here. I'm quite excited about this.

But before I am run away with my feelings on this subject, perhaps it will be advisable for me to state my reasons for keeping a blog -- and moreover for coming to the Internet with the design of selecting a blog, as I certainly did.

My reasons for blogging are, first, that I thikn it a right thing for every person in easy circumstances (like myself) to set the example of blogging in his community. Secondly, that I am convinced that it will add very greatly to my happiness; and thirdly -- which perhaps I ought to have mentioned earlier, that it is the particular advice and recommendation of the very noble thing whom I have the honour of calling my imagination. Twice has it condescended to give me its opinion (unasked too!) on this subject; and it was but the very Sunday night before I went offline -- between webcomics, that it said, "John, you must blog. A man like you must blog. -- Chuse properly, chuse one for my sake; and for your own, let it be an active, useful sort of service, not too pretentious, but able to be customized in good way. This is my advice. Find such as service as soon as you can, put it online, and I shall visit it.

I could go on, but that reeks of laziness. I harbor no illusions that anyone reading this blog will get the reference above, but it amuses me. Besides, I'm still at work and should by all rights, be working. Eh.