Beginnings are a time for delicate balances
I suppose, that given that I have arranged to stumble into just about every major movement of my lifetime, that it is high time I tried this blog thing. That, and today I have a little time to kill, and my co workers appreciate my not singing. Oh well, the money was wasted.
Every movement, you say? Well, almost. In 45 years I have arranged be born, play sports, act in the senior musical, sing, play a god blessed baritone horn, get my butt kicked, kick some butt, go to an ivy league school, join a fraternity, join the navy, thumb my nose at the Soviets (remember those guys?) play target in the Persian gulf, dive a sub, drive a ship, sail a sailboat, pull rods on a nuclear reactor, watch an ICBM launch, conn a boat launch, leave the service, get a job in manufacturing just when layoffs became cool, get a job in defense contracting just when that business tanked as peace broke out, build computer products, build internet products, join the Dot Com boom, ride the dot com bust, get married, have kids, have an affair with a woman barely legal, get a divorce, get married, have more kids, have her have an affair, get divorced, get engaged again, start up an Indian call center, plan the third wedding.
( breathe)
I can say I have done a few things, and that is just the short list. No brag ma'am, just fact. (and who here remembers that reference). But I have never kept a diary, much less an online diary. It will be interesting to see if, having started, anyone reads this (or cares?). Well, no way to know unless one tries, so here we go, mixed metaphors, confused tenses and all.
The name I use is not my own, although that may change. Points to the reader who identifies the character of my musings. More points if you can identify the book he wrote. I get points deducted if it turns out there is more than just the one Maurice Basilius I know. Points are important, seeing that for most of us, we spend heaps of our working and personal life trying to win points with someone, boss, spouse, mistress ( master??). Try wining a few with me, you might like it. Why the new name? Well, my given name is just fine, but common (there are some 70,000 of us in the US alone) and in any event, in the beginning, the delicate balance is best kept by keeping my mouth balanced shut where real names are concerned.
By the way, the title is pure Frank Herbert, a great writer and philosopher, and my favorite (though Milton is impressing the heck out of me these days. Someone should make "Paradise Lost" into a movie, Bruce Willis can play the devil and Orlando Bloom can play Raphael. Mr. And Mrs. Brad Pitt can take the Adam and Eve part and spend the entire movie in the buff, I doubt many would complain). If you have never read the Dune series, I suggest you add it to your summer reading list, you will never see life quite the same again.
A new adventure, and one well met. Lets see where it goes.
MB
Every movement, you say? Well, almost. In 45 years I have arranged be born, play sports, act in the senior musical, sing, play a god blessed baritone horn, get my butt kicked, kick some butt, go to an ivy league school, join a fraternity, join the navy, thumb my nose at the Soviets (remember those guys?) play target in the Persian gulf, dive a sub, drive a ship, sail a sailboat, pull rods on a nuclear reactor, watch an ICBM launch, conn a boat launch, leave the service, get a job in manufacturing just when layoffs became cool, get a job in defense contracting just when that business tanked as peace broke out, build computer products, build internet products, join the Dot Com boom, ride the dot com bust, get married, have kids, have an affair with a woman barely legal, get a divorce, get married, have more kids, have her have an affair, get divorced, get engaged again, start up an Indian call center, plan the third wedding.
( breathe)
I can say I have done a few things, and that is just the short list. No brag ma'am, just fact. (and who here remembers that reference). But I have never kept a diary, much less an online diary. It will be interesting to see if, having started, anyone reads this (or cares?). Well, no way to know unless one tries, so here we go, mixed metaphors, confused tenses and all.
The name I use is not my own, although that may change. Points to the reader who identifies the character of my musings. More points if you can identify the book he wrote. I get points deducted if it turns out there is more than just the one Maurice Basilius I know. Points are important, seeing that for most of us, we spend heaps of our working and personal life trying to win points with someone, boss, spouse, mistress ( master??). Try wining a few with me, you might like it. Why the new name? Well, my given name is just fine, but common (there are some 70,000 of us in the US alone) and in any event, in the beginning, the delicate balance is best kept by keeping my mouth balanced shut where real names are concerned.
By the way, the title is pure Frank Herbert, a great writer and philosopher, and my favorite (though Milton is impressing the heck out of me these days. Someone should make "Paradise Lost" into a movie, Bruce Willis can play the devil and Orlando Bloom can play Raphael. Mr. And Mrs. Brad Pitt can take the Adam and Eve part and spend the entire movie in the buff, I doubt many would complain). If you have never read the Dune series, I suggest you add it to your summer reading list, you will never see life quite the same again.
A new adventure, and one well met. Lets see where it goes.
MB
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