And so it begins...

My aspirations for this blog are reasonable - to become so wildly popular that I can quit my day job and make a six figure living from online ads (all praise Ad Sense!). Baring that, if I can get 12 people to read this on a regular basis, not only will I have succeeded in stoking my ego, I will have succeeded in wasting 12 people's valuable time.

I envision this as somewhat of a blog potpourri - a little bit of this and a little bit of that, as opposed to an overarching theme. That said, I look forward to sharing my witty, sometimes derogatory, and generally clueless thoughts on subjects that I find interesting - politics, the news media (hey, I do work in public relations), poker, my beloved Patriots, other sports, television, food, drink, my wife, friends....and just about anything else.

Which leads me to my first question - did some overstressed tech geek come up with the word 'blog' because calling it a web site was just too much effort?