This is the beginning of the diary I should have started in 1996. Better late than never, I hope. I intend (and know the road to hell is paved wif good intenshuns) to collect and collate those jewels of knowledge from the mountains of chaff we have to filter daily. Like the Hopi indian, the quest is to find the meaning of things. Today, the first working monday of the new year, fresh with the sounds and smells of yellow refuse trucks and weekend garbage, this blog is now officially declared open for business, right as rain and a for away! Tempis fugit!