Maybe I'll start using this thing

So I've been reading somebody else's blog that has inspired me to start actually blogging. The problem I have is that I don't really have anything that I consider worth writing about, at least for an audience of others to read.

I could vent frustration about my job: the fact that I'm doing exactly the same work I was doing almost 15 years ago when I got my start in the technology business... or the fact that I've swallowed my principles for the safety net - forgo the risk and incredible reward of something I actually enjoy for the safety and drudgery of working for a megacorp, something I have sworn for my entire adult life that I would never do.

I could vent frustration about the sad, sorry state of affairs of the government of this country, but that's so trendy and everybody else is doing that! I hate Bush, but so does everybody else. I don't care much for the current crop of candidates vying to replace him, either. The candidates I like (ok, really only one) haven't got a snowball's chance in hell of even being nominated for the simple fact that they don't play the game. Do I set aside my principles to back a horse that has a better chance of being nominated, just because he has a better chance of preventing the front-runner from catching the party vote? I must admit that the one thing that Mr. Obama has over any other candidate is that he has clearly stated his policy on technology, and I agree with most of it. Ambitious, perhaps to the point of being unrealistic, but he is at least addressing it!

I could choose not to vent at all, but to post about the happy things. I'm spending time with my son. Even if we're both engaged in our computers independently and doing our own things. And he's a Mac geek too. How proud could a Dad be? :) (OK, so I bought him the Macbook, but he loves it.)

Oh look, I've gone and blogged without realizing it.