Party’s over. The people have gone home. The dishwasher is busy making dirty dishes clean and everyone let’s out a sigh of relief. Overstuffed and over-tired. A little time to check on the forums followed by a walk. Thank God, it’s cooled off.

I think I like this w.bloggar thing. There’s a cool blogging plug-in for Windows Media Player 9 that let’s you easily insert your currently playing track, like this:

Will blogging become like a virtual (and pointless) arms race? With each blogger out to out-do the other with the niftiest tricks? Oh how the black hole tugs…

September 11th. Could there be a worse date for a birthday? My daughter turns 20 in a few days. On September 11th, to be precise. We’ll be celebrating today, thankfully. I wonder if the sobriety of 9/11 will ever wear off?

In keeping with the family festivities, we’ve got a boatload of people coming over. My wife’s brother, his girlfriend and five kids, my youngest son’s girlfriend, who also happens to be one of my daughter’s closest friends from ballet, and my mother- and father-in-law. Chicken ka-bobs are the order of the day, and being that it’s my “free” day, I’ll be imbibiing one or two cold cervezas.

Oh and I’m writing this with w.bloggar as an experiment. I can feel myself getting sucked into the vortex of MT add-ons and doo-dads. What a dork!

Well, having polished off a cold refreshing beverage (after working up a sweat trimming the hedges), I’m off to tackle one of my favorite things: hosing off the backyard patio. And I mean every word of it. There’s something cathartic about the cool water washing away the dirt and pepper-tree droppings… cool mist wafting about in the otherwise blazing day. Ahhh.

I like the way Moveable Type uses cascading style sheets (CSS) to control the look of the site so completely. While I’m not content to use the default styles available, it is amazing to see the power of CSS at work.

I’m currently trying out the Rusty style. Finally a respite from all the blue in my web world.

Having passed the initial hurdles of installing MT on Windows, I now need to find a real purpose. Make no mistake; I have no aspirations for the blogsphere. This place is purely self-serving.

I just need to find what it can do for me.

This is the first post. A test. I hope I pass.