Some Preliminary Remarks

This, gentle reader, is my first, hesitating attempt at web-logging. It is entirely conceivable to me that I will delete this first post, indeed delete this blog completely, and so return to the relative safety and obscurity of the non-blogging part of the human race. But first, let me just get a notion of what a post looks like on this blog when everything is properly set up. I will sleep on it tonight; and if tomorrow it still does not seem too foolish for me to do so, then perhaps I will elect to proceed (or not) with what would appear to be an increasingly popular pastime for wastrels and windbags. Adieu.