Way to be current on trends, fella.

I think we can all admit that in one way or another, whether we would like to admit it or not, we're mostly creatures of social voyeurism. While we all have our own hot-button issues, opinions and feelings, an outlet of some sort is always a healthy or unhealthy way to vent and to be a sponge for others doing the same.

So here comes my old ass wandering into the fray of the social boxing ring, with the ever so self righteous, holier than thou "blog". I've never had anything I truly felt compelled to share with the binary masses or that I thought would even be interesting enough even for my family to read. I must admit I find great joy in reading what's on other peoples minds quite a bit, whether I agree with it or disagree, I appreciate people's willingness to divulge their souls for the world to devour, like an Aztec sacrifice to the gods. Honestly, at times these personal admissions are just as brutal. Before cell phones and the Internet, to get information required actual human interaction. How convenient would this be; you wake up in the morning, put on some crappy pair of comfy pants and pour some coffee, sit down at your computer and there are 35 other people in the room telling you what they are thinking about or what their plans are for the day. The whole room would smell like morning breath and sleep odor, and everyone would be crabby as hell because no one likes to be seen at their vulnerable "I don't honestly care about how I look right now" morning state. This is not new, or even relevant information to anyone. We all know we have the great "Big Brother" technological advantage at our fingertips whenever we feel so inclined to poke our heads into the lives of others, and I'm embracing this idea and returning the favor for all who have bared their souls unwillingly to me.

So this is it. The start of something that will be either some of the most horribly boring shit you have ever had the displeasure of reading, or possibly the Grand Canyon of too much information that will clearly be used against me as blackmail in the future. So the title pretty much sums up my rationale behind even starting a blog in the first place. "The Random Walk" is a term used in modern astronomy, to describe what photons do from creation to expulsion from the sun. At or near the core, they bounce violently at a very rapid pace being absorbed by atoms and spit back out, over and over again. As they near the surface, they are far less likely to collide, providing a stability in their path from the sun to us, in the end giving us all the much needed light that sustains us. Whether this can be viewed as a metaphor for our lives in any way, that's to be determined by someone who is light years in intelligence beyond my scope of understanding. But for the time being, it will be my own little tool of "expulsion" for all you social voyeurs.