Day 1

Lalalalalala....

I will be blogging for the next thirty days and when I am finished I will be thirty. What better way to celebrate thirty years of life than thirty days of LIVING and dropping accumulated knowledge on all you youngsters (and perhaps the elderly.)

I believe that the cardinal rule of blogging is NOBODY IS INTERESTED IN A RUNNING LOG OF THE MUNDANE DETAILS OF WHAT YOU DID TODAY. This goes doubly for Facebook and Twitter. Everyone should think long and hard before posting Facebook statuses (statii?) like this: "Went to Wal-Mart....GREAT deals on grapefruit juice...now driving home to watch "Grey's Anatomy"...hope I don't get pulled over for texting...LOL!" 98 percent of the time nobody cares about these details of your day. This isn't a story...it's just what happened. That said...I plan on sharing exactly these types of mundane details over the next month. Why? Because there is an exception to the cardinal rule: YOU MAY SHARE MUNDANE DETAILS IF THEY ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. I believe that the mundane details of my life are invaluable to future civilizations. It would be pointless for me to try to explain why and how, you just have to take my word on this. I hope that it becomes clear as my blogging continues.

Which leads to the question on everyone's mind: What did Mr. Mike do today?

"Just waking up in the morning gotta thank God
I don't know but today seems kinda odd
No barking from the dogs, no smog
And Momma cooked a breakfast with no hog."

(The above is a quotation. I will be using lots of these. This is not because I am not creative. I am. Quoting people is an art form best expressed through the following quotation: "That was called recycling / or re-reciting / something cause you like it so you say it just like it / some say it's biting / but I say it's enlightening." If this were actually MY quotation it would be somewhat different. Most notably, I do not live with my mom but no doubt if she did cook breakfast today, hog was not included. This is still certainly cause for celebration, but not terribly out of the usual.)

Back to the matter at hand...I felt really good waking up this morning. Probably will feel slightly worse waking up tomorrow. Between Day 1, Cinco de Mayo, and the Hawks game, today is a PERFECT STORM. I've had lots of these lately. But this has been a good one. And it was even PD WEDNESDAY at work. You probably don't know what this is. And you still don't. But I did have a HUGE lunch of tacos and such, a good time with the kids, beautiful weather, and now I'm kicking it at home on my deck with a margarita and the new New Pornographers album. And this blog of course. This is life. And in just a few minutes I will be heading out for the Blackhawks game. A little nervous about that....

So there....those are the mundane details of my day. Over time the importance of these will become evident. For the moment...just read and smile and imagine how happy I must be.

But mundane details are not the only thing I will be writing about...oh no indeed! Mostly I will just be rambling at great length about whatever is on my mind over the course of the day. LOOK OUT! That's all kindsa ridiculous shit! Unfortunately, today there is nothing on my mind but good vibes and sunshine and strawberry margaritas and hockey. So you dodged a bullet today...catch ya tomorrow.