Hi. Call me whatever you want - I have lots of different nicknames.

I am occasionally (okay, regularly) guilty of the profligate use of words that fall well within George Carlin's "7 Dirty Words" routine. I don't use them for shock value - I only use them when I think they have value in the context of the larger topic. I'll try to hold off, but I have a weak character. Don't discount all the other words just because you object to a couple of them. At the very least, I care about typos and noun/verb agreement on a level that is probably not healthy, but will enhance the reading experience.

I have always had a problem, however, with the ban on double-negatives in a sentence, especially in a language that is as ambiguous as English is. Sometimes expediency means that you just go with the flow of a sentence, rather than conform to the rules of a language that seems to morph by the hour.

I've been thinking about doing something like this for a while. Things will be updated when the muse comes to pay me a visit. In some ways, it is intended to be an outlet for things that are a little too complex for an email, or require a lot of explanation, or for whatever reason don't fit into a Facebook post.

If you like what you see, come back. There will be very few pictures - I just don't do visual stuff well. I will, as my side of the bargain, attempt to limit my word vomit to reasonable lengths. As my part of the deal, I promise that I will link from my social media accounts to a maximum of one post every two weeks (this may kill me). I'm sure that I will probably post stuff more often than that.

Your side of the deal - if you find it interesting, or humorous, or otherwise worthy of conversation, please feel free to talk about it on YOUR social media, and share it with others. I'm rarely completely right, but I'm also rarely completely wrong. Somewhere in there is a conversation that is conspicuously absent in this country.

I know this is an extraordinarily high bar, but please try to keep it civil. We're all trying to make it through, and while we may not agree on everything, every person who is reading / commenting / linking to this is still a human being and worthy of some respect. Well, until the cats become self-aware. Because when that happens, we are screwed.