I’m still trying to figure out what to do with this blog — I’ve been too grumpy and scattered for too long, and it’s time to split things into logical groups. I may break out into a couple different blogs soon, but I’m still thinking about how best to handle that. In the meantime, I’ve had some random thoughts that I think I’ll share here (some timely, some not so much).

• I am able to fly my American flag two days in a row — one day for Martin Luther King, one day for Barack Obama and a new vision.
• If Barack Obama does half (hell, a quarter) of what he says he will in the first week of his administration, I will cry with joy.
• George Bush doesn’t seem to realize that he’s lucky to leave Washington without shackles on.
• True conservative Americans are, ironically enough, going to be better heard after tomorrow than they have been for eight years.
• What I’ve heard recently about the recruitment practices of the armed forces (assisted by the current economic situation) is alarming.
• The Hindi accent may well be the best accent in the world in which to say, “polyglot.”
• Thanks to living in a city with ample opportunities for fun learning, my daughter was thrilled to go to the Field Museum as a reward today AND was proud to learn (and share) that based on their DNA fingerprints, flamingos and grebes are very closely related.
• As for me and the Field Museum, I got to visit my local mummy (who I’ve been visiting, I realized today, for over 30 years) and touch the sarcophagus that has given me chills for that long as well.
• There is nothing like three-part harmony, two guitars, and a bass when we all hit our notes.
• I didn’t know you could be too fat to comfortably play guitar. Pudgy fingers and Short Arm Syndrome are a wake up call.
• I am still a profoundly bad violin player. And I have never before enjoyed something so completely that I’m so completely bad at.
• Related to the previous point, I’m on the lookout for a free or cheap accordion.

So that’s that. In no rigid order, those are some of the things that have been kicking around in my head for the past few days. I guess that’s what a blog is supposed to be — I may try to divide into a couple of different focuses (and therefore better conquer each) in the next few weeks. But in the meantime, it was time to post something that wasn’t entirely derived from rage, you know?