Every several weeks for the last few months, we’ve had at work a personal trainer guy come in and give talks on various health-related topics. The last one he did was on posture. My posture isn’t bad, but I’m conscientious of it and think it could be improved (especially since I sit at a desk all day), so I attended. After the talk I spoke with him, and realized during our conversation that this guy’s shoes had each of his toes separated, so it rather looked like he was barefoot, except that he was clearly wearing shoes. I had to know what they were, and he told me a bit about them, including that they’re made by Vibram (the same company that makes, for example, hiking boot soles), and they’re called FiveFingers (due to the separation of the toes).

My buddy Jack thinks they ought to be called “Monkey Feet,” but that’s another story altogether…
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I’m very good at it, you see. Not so much necessarily procrastination per se, but at doing something and then getting onto a completely different track and basically forgetting about that other pot cooking on the fire until it goes and burns down so low that its contents congeals, evolves a new life of its own, pulls itself from the pot and leaves to start a new exciting life, far away from he who created it - me, you see. I’m that person leaving stuff for so long that it evolves legs and creeps away.

If you didn’t get the rather obscure reference above, I was referring to posting to my blog. I can’t believe it’s been since last summer that I posted last! “Got a Job!?” That was my last post? So much has happened in that time!

I’m going to try to start writing here again, not that anyone’s really keeping track I think, but hey - I have thoughts and stuff I want to write, so this is as much for me as it is for you. If you read it and enjoy what I write, cool! Otherwise, there’s always YouTube or Hulu, right?

More to come shortly…