A Single Step

        The saying "Every journey begins with a single step"  is actually "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"  and it was Confucius who actually said it, or rather, wrote it. I'm assuming that distance is arbitrary as it pertains to a blog but I would have no idea because this is my first attempt (to put it generously) at writing a blog. As such, I don't have any thousand mile ideas about this. All I have are the thoughts in my tiny head and this experiment at putting those thoughts out in the world wide web.

        I read somewhere that one person gives (the blogger) and another person receives (the reader) but somehow I think that it more often goes like this- one person rambles and another person gets irritated because they just wasted precious moments of their life taking the time to read another persons ramblings.
         Perhaps I'm a little too cynical after reading so many opinion columns in the Detroit Free Press and the Hockey News. Maybe I'm just jumping to conclusions about something the surface of which I've only just begun to scratch. Heaven knows I've spent more than enough time reading idiotic things written by professional writers that I have reason to feel cynical. Most likely, that's exactly the reason why I've started this blog, my experiment. Seems I've come to the conclusion that the conversations happening at the ice rink and in the lunch room at work are far more interesting than anything to be found in a newspaper or magazine. Since that seems to be the case why not conversations on the internet? There are "regular" people on the internet, right? Hell, I like to think of myself as the average schmuck so why not take a chance on there being other schmucks like me out there who wouldn't mind spending a few minutes reading the ramblings of a fellow schmuck?
        I'm not going to organize anything. I'm not going to put myself on a schedule or try and post an opinion about every little thing that sparks a question in my tiny little brain. When I feel inspired to put thought to... well, not paper... but y'know, I'll just do it.
        A single step has been taken (or a few after going through the setup process), we'll see what happens.