First post

Before I get into any deep stuff, a quick introduction: I'm am old guy - at least in the blogging world. Well past 50. I'm a slightly over-educated, somewhat under-experienced and occasionally naive and miss-informed guy with opinions about just about everything. They may not be right, but they're mine. I work in a professional/managerial capacity in Champaign-Urbana, IL, which is just about as middle America as exists anywhere outside of Iowa. I like Champaign-Urbana. Most of it, anyway.

Who am I?

I like the Cubs. I can't help it; it's a disease. I don't much like the team the Cubs have this year, but I still like the Cubs. When they finish 25 games out of first, I will STILL like them. Go figure. I also like the Bulls and most of the time the Bears. I live in Illinois, after all. But I also like the Colts and have since December, 1958. If you're old enough and enough of a fan, you know why.

I like good wine. I'd like to say I like fine wine, but I can't afford fine wine, so I subsist on good wine. I'm trying to learn enough about wine to be only about half as obnoxious as that guy in 'Sideways.'

Politically, I tend toward the liberal — although not as liberal as I was when I was 20 — when it comes to politics, but there are some liberals that really make me queasy. I don't blindly support all Democrats, nor do I hate all Republicans. Just most. i grew up (politically) in the ’60s with Vietnam and Civil Rights and the birth of the women's movement and environmentalism. Never got over it.

I'm a Christian, but that, in an of itself doesn't make me dull. It just happened a few (quite a few) years ago.

So why am I blogging? Not sure. I think from time to time I have something I want to say about things and this is as good a way as any to get my words out there and see if anyone wants to listen.