[...] I read a ton of books, listen to a lot of music, eat a lot of food, and love my Kubota tractor. I don't get to drive the tractor often enough. My plan for this little space is to use it to inject my own viewpoints into the web. I've got close friends (and a really insistent wife) that tell me I should be writing regularly. So this is where I am going to do that. I don't personally believe that I have the skill or talent to engage anything approaching a readership, but this might just sharpen that dull blade. The probable end-point to this is that I will quit my job to write full-time, become impoverished and alcoholic, fail disasterously, lose my family and friends, and die in a cold room, utterly unlamented. [...]