okay, this blog thing is weird because ...

A friend of mine in Houston Texas worked for the Chronicle for a number of years and we talked monthly, he and I went to middle school on up together, so I was always very aware of what was going on with him and the paper and ... well, Texas is really conservative, right? Austin aside it's not a great place for a left-leaning journalist (yeah, yeah, I know! we're ALL left-leaning, right)

But he started a blog as a place to get his ideas out there, or just even report on the news that he thought was important - this was in the year or so after the war when it was unpatriotic to even say there were no WMDs in Iraq and anyway, long story short, my friend no longer works at the Chronicle and it was because of that blog ... the damn thing got him fired!!!

So, i'm a little nervous writing about anything other than I had some French toast this morning at the diner near my house and it was delicious ...

My first post on my first blog? say wha? why?

I opened my e-mail this morning (Saturday! I usually don't even check it on the weekend, I get enough of it at work) and I saw an e-mail from a colleague about her new blog

http://angelasnewsroom.blogspot.com/

And I'm not usually so transparently competitive, but hey, I had to run out and start my very own blog - heeeelllooooo, Angela! and hello world!