I start out with high ideals.

I always end up having dropped ’em by the wayside.

Yeah, that’s me alright.

I do have a sort of excuse— no, I mean explanation: it’s the dwindling of energy that being almost unbelievably ancient causes … brings … is responsible for.

When I was young (about two years ago), I would NEVER take any easy way out of bloody anything ! – in fact, I was driven to being a kind of seeker of Trouble … right here in River City; and that rhymes with P and that stands for Pathetic. [Apologies to that extraordinary wordsmith, Meredith Wilson. Oh, there are some wonderful American musicals ! – no wonder Stringer loved them so.]

And the pathetic is what now characterizes me, alas. Rather than save muchos dollari and forego Microsoft, learning how to make the large change from Outlook to Thunderbird – also a downward step in terms of calendar function – and the only slightly less large change from Excel to LibreOffice’s Calc, within which I cannot find most of the functions I use regularly in Excel without having to open the online manual and search … Oh, and also take the plunge to NOT LOG IN TO MY MICROSOFT ACCOUNT when firing up the old laptop … Rather than take on all these challenges, I say, I have opted out. Pa-the-tic.

So, seeing as how I’ve capitulated to Bill’s software megalodon, I might as well do the same to Matt thingummy’s blog platform.

I have admitted under (blogging) oath to being weak and useless and totally unadmirable, so what’s the point of taking a stand about anything ?!

[sits back with satisfied sigh …]