The Beginning of the End

it's been a long time coming...

so anyway, I've finally decided that maintaining two blogs is just a little more than I have time for these days (or months, or years). I'm going to end Congruence on my fifth blogoversary, 17 July 2009.

I'm reminded that I never have told the story of how this little experiment came to being. Grab a cold one and pull up a chair, here we go:

My first attempt at blogging was over at Supply Side Politics 2.0, which remains an on-going operation. Of course, we didn't have the "2.0" rev level at the time, but that's part of the story of the other blog....but I digress.

Supply Side Politics was started by my Brother-in-Blog, Greg, after we had been discussing starting a blog for months. Finally, on Friday 25 June 2004, around tea-time, he calls me over to his cube to finalize the details. Shortly thereafter, we were bloggers, ready to offer our collective wit and wisdom to The World, and subsequently to be showered with Fortune and Glory.

Such an auspicious start. We hacked away, taking the required "baby-steps", finding our voice. Life, OTOH, takes little notice.

On 6 July 04, I was "downsized" from my (then) Stoopid Business™ employer. My Brother-in-Blog survived the purge. Shortly thereafter, the Blogger template we were using for Supply Side Politics (hereafter: SSP) got seriously FUBARed. I was listed as a "Contributer" for SSP, without Admin rights. I couldn't contact Greg for over a week (as it turns out, he was on vacation) and I was freaking.out. Our blog was AFU, and I can't fix it.

Through some bit of twisted logic, I rationalized that I could figure out how to solve SSP's template issues by starting another Blogspot blog, and by playing around with the template, I could find the solution to SSP's problems. Hence, this blog, Congruence.

As it turns out, Blogger self-corrected, Greg called me back, SSP returned to normal. And I was left with Congruence, swingin' in the breeze. So I kept it going, using the blog as an outlet for personal ramblings, humor, and off-color material (of which there is none).

My inaugral post, here at Congruence:

\Con"gru*ence\, n. [L. congruentia: cf. OF.cornguence.]Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency.

Consistency. That's what it's really all about. Can one be consistant and intellectually honest in all their beliefs. I don't care if you agree with me; in fact it's the disagreement that makes life interesting. As long as everything is congruent, as long as there is no glaring dichotomy in logic; we'll get along just fine.

This blog is to be a playground of ideas; a place where I can get up on the soapbox and blather on about whatever issue has my shorts twisted that particular day. And believe me, there are lots of issues that get my dander up.

So grab a beer and pull a chair up to the table. All are welcome, dissent is invited. Be forewarned: check your facts, bring your data, and be prepared to lose. Remember we're all crew on the same boat, and at times we'll have to "agree to disagree" and change the topic to baseball or the weather.

I'll continue this narritave soon