Welcome Back!

It's been some three years since I've used Blogger, and I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome me back. Welcome back, me! I now live in Southern California. Well, "live" is an exaggeration, if by :live" we mean "have an address". My family got here Monday, dropped Samie off at Soka University of America on Tuesday, and are now sleeping poolside in a vacation rental in Santa Ana. At any rate, I no longer ride the bus to work, or make random book purchases at Goodwill, so the original purpose of the blog is out the window - perhaps it got loose and flew out as we drove past the sign for the restaurant offering "American and New Mexico Cuisine", or the one promising "No Phony Discounts". Whatever the case, it's gone. Gone also is my job as the Omaha Liberal Examiner. I will not become the "Orange County Liberal Examiner". Yet I must write, and I have this self-created marketplace, and so I will write. But . . . what about? The thought has occurred to me that I am in California a mere 40 or 50 years behind schedule, so I could just pretend it's 1963 or 1965 and post pictures from that era (, and link to songs about California, and write as if nothing has changed (e.g., "Saw The Men at the Troubadour last night"). Or, I could use it to pontificate, a la The Examiner. Or something else entirely. Right now, I just want to see how Blogger works these days. The draft I'm writing looks pretty bad, so I'm just gonna post it to see if it turns out okay. Here goes...Welcome back!!