welcome

First off, I'd just like to say welcome. I am going to assume that you are reading this of your own volition. I should offer a word of caution before this web-tryst goes any further: I am not a nice person. I don't care about your warm and fuzzy sensibilities. If I put out something that offends you, I DON'T CARE. For various reasons, I won't be mentioning anyone's name in here. I will rely on initials or made up names to keep people I know from throwing blunt objects at my head, not that they could do more damage to me than my job has already done, but that's a topic for another post. To get to the point, take everything I post with a grain of salt, and for God's sake, at least TRY to have a sense of humor. Enough said.

I was recently told by my hiking compatriots that I needed to start a blog. The reason, you ask? Apparently, all the cool kids were doing it and I, sadly, was left behind to rail against the unfairness of it all. (What was actually happening is that I was trying to climb back up a mini-mountain in Carolina and was too slow to catch up to said compatriots. I'll get you, you bastards. Just you wait.) So, here I am today, muddling through blurred and swirled words that I have to retype because Blogger thinks that I might be a computer program trying to pull its pants down while it wasn't looking, all to make my friends happy. No. I can't really say that. Maybe this is just what I've been needing, a comfortable public podium from which I may bitch about life in general and stupid people in particular. While I won't always be bitching about stupid people (not for lack of material, I assure you,), I will always try to keep my observations as light-hearted as I possibly can while not losing my acerbic taste for flippant remarks and sarcasm. This is my pledge to you, the reader.

So, if you're still with me, once again let me say welcome. And hold on tight. This road might just get a little bumpy.