"This could be the start of something big" -- Steve Allen

Yes, I'm a copycat, I know.

Also, it probably would have made more sense to start this on July 1st, thereby starting with a new month, a new week, and probably other new things also. But oh, no, I had a sudden attack of, "Oh, my God, all my friends have blogs now. All of them. Some of them have been doing this for years.

Seriously, I've been thinking about doing this for a while, because I often get bizarre random thoughts stuck in my brain the way most people get song lyrics stuck in theirs, and I want someplace where I can safely let them out. (The random thoughts, not the song lyrics. There is no place to safely let song lyrics out without having to pay royalties.) One of those random thoughts: It's not "at his beckon call," you idiot, it's "at his beck and call."

But the paucity of work at the office today just sealed the deal.