Play Ball!

9/7/2013

Welcome to the inaugural post of my new blog!

I would like to begin by sharing my purpose for creating this blog.  Essentially, I have no purpose... I have no agenda, I'm not on a mission to accomplish anything, I'm not offering advice, I have no message to share, I'm not exorcising my demons and I'm not trying to be a comedian.  Good grief!  This is starting to sound like "Seinfeld"... a show about nothing.  At any rate, if any of the above should happen to occur, it is merely by accident and not by design.  To sum it up, I am simply putting down some of the things that occasionally rattle around in my head.  Plus I am emulating some of my middle age friends, who now have their own blogs.  It appears that this is the hip thing for guys like me to do nowadays.  Hey it could be worse... I remember back in the '70's, guys bought corvettes, wore low cut satin shirts and gold medallions.  Of course if I could afford a corvette, this is the last place I would be!  And I would no doubt have to sell the medallion to cover the fuel cost.  As for the satin shirt... never was my style.  I'm a cotton man all the way.

I chose the title "Play Ball!" because as I make this initial entry, I am reminded of the excitement I used to feel before every game.  That feeling of no matter how many times I went to pee, I continued to feel the urge to go until the umpire yelled, "Play Ball!"  Having said that, now that I am a few sentences into this, I'm over it.  As the name of this blog implies, I am a 40-something year old college student.  I am currently a senior at the University of North Texas, trying my hardest to graduate this coming spring, "something coom loudy".... (hey, it might just as well be in latin, because I can't tell the difference)  At any rate, if the current POS-OTUS and his administration doesn't either throw me and all of my conservative friends into a "re-education" camp, or get us all blown off the map, then I stand a good chance of succeeding in this endeavor!

In the days to come, I will be sharing some of the adventures I have had in the academic world and I will share other things as well, as I see fit.  I have also decided to include a section of repeated themes and  I will put these under their own sub-headings.  For example:

Daily Clifton-ism:
All snakes are poisonous, all guns are loaded.

Recent Message from God:
I could work wonders in your life, if you would just get out of the way!

Words of Wisdom from Grandmother:
If you don't stop telling lies about me, then I'm going to start telling the truth about you!

Okay folks, I hope you enjoy my little venture. (both of you)  If not, then thanks for at least stopping by to take a look.  One thing is for certain... just because I feel compelled to write it, doesn't necessarily mean you need to read it.  Have a wonderful day! CHJ