I can't help but hear her words of wisdom echoing my my ears ... "You know, they've proven that old adage wrong ... the one about the million monkeys and Shakespeare.  Have you read the blogs?  Tripe."  Tripe indeed and knowing that what prompts me, a lowly monkey, to start this? Well, there's Hat Chick (That's her super secret Blog name.  It's all very James Bond this world of Blogging and, no, she's not the one who called blogs Tripe that's someone else.).  Hat Chick blogs and almost every time I tell her I like what she's written she sniffs and tells me that I should blog because she likes the way I write (you just can't let that sort of devotion down forever) and there's the Steely-Eyed Missle Man (SEMM from here on out because you can forget about me typing that over and over again).  He's always telling me that I should write.  He believes it ... you can't let that sort of belief down forever either.  And heck,  it'll make that Christmas letter 2009 that much easier; so why not?

Of course, all that introduction being behind us what shall I write about ... certainly not my every day life.  No matter how well I write (according to Hat Chick and SEMM) I can't make that interesting (much less inspirational).  Geek that I am I considered "What I learned today."  This introduced two problematic issues.   The first being the word "today."  Good gosh that's all awful lot of pressure ... today.  It implies a sort of "Johnny On The Spot" attitude and organization that, face it, I won't be attaining this lifetime.  I'll never be the sort to crank out something daily.  Let's get that expectation set correctly up front.  I will blog on a semi-quasi-nebulous schedule meaning when I feel like it and I have the time.  Being queen of this Blog I can set up such a capricious schedule.  Don't like it?  There's other blogs, baby.  Now, where was I ... today ... no ... ah yes, "what I learned".  You think today is bad ... learned?  Way too much pressure.  Something new, interesting and innovative.  Why every time I posted I could hear the voices in my head (I like to think of them as a Greek Chorus) "You posted that why every one knows that already.  You may be able to string subject and predicate but boy are you stoo-pid!"   I didn't like that, which got me to thinking of what I do like ... which got me thinking that was a pretty good idea.  My blog will be what I like right now (right now being wonderfully present without the added pressure of a daily nature). 

WHAT I LIKE RIGHT NOW ... it's perfect!  You see liking something right now doesn't mean I will like it forever.  Nothing last forever, I've learned that in life.  But for several golden moments in the sun the object of my affection can be shared and glorified and then abandoned to the dustbin of past posts.  WHAT I LIKE RIGHT NOW also gives me the flexibility to select persons, places, things, concepts anything real or imagined.  I might not talk of my life directly but I suspect that my reader (hello Hat Chick!) may learn a little about my goings on along the way.  WHAT I LIKE RIGHT NOW ... that's all I have to offer.  Today, of course, what I like right now is this blog and Hat Chick and SEMM for encouraging me to do it.