There are a few things I have learned in my short years on this planet.  Unfortunately, I can't remember them.  So, here I sit, staring at this page, realizing that there is really nothing that I can share with you that will be in any way memorable or perhaps uplifting.  In fact, I don't even think I can really come up with a decent way to waste your time.  And to think, as you sit here reading this, that your life is slowly seeping out of you, like air from a leaky balloon.  Is this really what you want to be doing with your life?  Reading  a bulletin written by some little-known musician about nothing at all? 

I really had huge aspirations once.  I wanted to galvanize the planet with my songs.  I hoped to inspire people to lead better and happier lives through my writing.  I dreamed of vast empires built entirely on the fruits (and nuts) of my talents.   I...well, I thought things would be different.  I certainly didn't think that I'd be here.  Nodding off.  Sitting in front of a computer.  As I try to wash the taste of another 10 hour workday out of my mouth.  

Well, I guess what I'm trying to say is that you just never know where you'll end up in life.  For my part, if I project out based on the trajectory my life has taken thusfar,  I suspect that I'm going to spend the last 10 years of my life sitting in traffic.  Trying to get to an off-ramp.  That's most probably been closed.  Oh well.  It beats getting tortured for a living.  Barely.

With a sigh that weighs as heavy as a dump truck,

Mike TV