I get bored. . .

I've spent some time recently reading interesting posts on blogs belonging to some of my friends and, though I'm still not sure why anyone wants to do a blog, have decided to give it a try.  After all, I get bored on occasion and having a blog might give me something to occupy some of that time.

I'll begin with an explanation of the name of my blog.  Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. is one of the authors that I really enjoy reading on occasion because he doesn't fit into any kind of mold or cookie cutter.  He marched to the beat of his own drum and wrote books that don't fit nicely into any kind of genre description.  In his book Cat's Cradle, is the conversation that appears in my blog description, minus the asterisks used as edit marks.  Later in the book, the same two characters encounter something that makes no sense and one of them shrugs and says, "See the cat?  See the cradle?"

I'll probably use this blog as something of a stream of consciousness.  I'll probably pontificate on random topics that just happen to be on my mind.  There probably won't be much sense in what I choose to write about and I don't think I care if that bugs people.  If this turns into a compendium of nonsense, so be it.  It'll at least be an excuse to write, which I enjoy doing even if I'm not that great at it.  Enjoy.