Re-entry back from space...

Howdy all!

Who am I, do you ask? Well I wouldn't be surprised if you were actually asking that question as you read this. And I wouldn't be surprised if you were also thinking, "is it 'who' or 'whom'"? Grammatical nuances aside, it is I, returning to the blogosphere after my departure away from writing and entrance into what had become the "twitterosphere" mixed with the "statusphere" with my thoughts either being limited to 140 characters or less or just short enough so 450 or so of my closest lurkers could read it and possibly click a "like" button to tell me that hey, that was worth the 30 seconds of my time to read it.

Instead I wanted to get back to my roots, whatever that means, and dish out mindless drivel about all sorts of subjects. I then wondered what subjects would be worthy of more than 30 seconds of people's time or more than 140 characters of text and then had a brilliant thought: the subjects should be about what *I* like. Note the two asterisks, squeezing me (or I) in that sentence. That means that the "I" should be stressed heavily, unlike the "I" in between the quotation marks which are basically just a few hands keeping the "I" floating in the sentence (there it goes again).

So what subjects do I like?

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Hmm...

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Well, there's...

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Yeah, maybe instead...

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Well I sort of thought about it and decided that I like to write about these subjects. So if you find one or any or all (heaven forbid!) interesting, then good for you. Your time will be well spent.

1. Sports.

I love sports. Love them. Love them to the point where at one point of my life I thought it was totally going to rule and at the same time ruin my life. As a Boston sports fan, ... well enough said. Those of you who are one know what I mean. Over the last 10 years, the Red Sox have turned into suffering losers to 2-time WS winnin', chicken and beer swillin', not-as-bad-losers, the Patriots have won three Super Bowls while losing two (sigh), the Bruins have come from an attitude where a pair of tickets constituted a "group sale" to a Stanley Cup winner and hottest ticket in town, and the Celtics... well the Celtics won it in 2008 and almost again two years later, but hey, anything's possible as they would say. And I love talking about, writing about, attending, listening, watching, hell even farting about sports. Fortunately, they don't rule my life nearly as much as they used to, so rather than reserving my own seat on the Tobin if they lost, now I just accept the loss as part of life, think about other, more important things, and make another stitch into my Derek Jeter/Peyton Manning/Eli Manning/Kobe Bryant hybrid voodoo doll.

2. Stuff.

Who doesn't love stuff!? Well I do. It could be about ridiculous observations of people, to politics, to life in general, to randomness, such as why people wave their cell phone in the air when they lose coverage like the signal is magically 2 feet above their heads, to why I pack extra underwear when I travel even though I haven't shit my pants in years. Everyone love stuff.

3. Everything else.

Really, I just needed more than 2 bullet points to illustrate the randomness of my point here.

So, I'll leave you with that for now and promise that I'll be writing more for your amusement/bemusement and sometimes it will be long-winded, sometime short-breezed, and sometimes you'll catch a whiff and just realize I'm farting about sports again.

Cheers to all,
Mike