Simultaneously the other day:
- I reconnected with some old college buddies and realized through our perfunctory catch-up chatting that I won some sort of lottery a few years back, a lottery I didn’t enter, the prize of which was a career and some hobbies I find eminently satisfying. Dodged a bullet there, apparently.
- I realized this blogging thing has to be more than the exchange of ideas — you and me, me and you — that, for the ideas to really take root, there has to be some personality lubricating the transaction. There is, of course, the concern that a noxious personality might attach itself to worthy ideas, but we’re going to risk that here.
So my alter ego would like to introduce himself now.