Misc Ramblings

There used to be a monthly article in Road & Track magazine called Misc Ramblings, written by one of the editors, Peter Egan. It truly lived up to it's title, as Egan would share his random thoughts, from topics both serious to trivial. They were insightful, funny, and always entertaining. I miss those articles. I don't really know what happened to the editorial, or the editor for that matter. My magazine allegiance switched to another publication, and so regardless, the relationship ended. And that is really it - it was a relationship. I never met Egan. If I passed him on the street, I would not recognize him, or embrace him as a long lost friend. We were strangers. Yet, I felt I had access to something incredibly private and personal - his misc ramblings.

This goes back several years and so, it was before the craze of "blogging" had really taken off. It seems lately that blogging has given way to status updates and tweets. Our misc ramblings have been reduced to fortune cookie style blurbs, that are delivered at machine gun pace. I confess to being a status update junkie at times, although I have not yet tweeted. I do not want to degrade something I will probable engage in eventually - after all I did not jump on the blogging bandwagon until lately. But here is my thought - recently I had 2 people that I know who started blogging, and I have thoroughly enjoyed their ramblings. Yet another person has the opportunity to actually blog as a money making endeavor about their forthcoming educational experience. I look forward to following her adventures. I guess at the end of the day, I just enjoy writing and reading. I like the glimpse into someones thoughts that I would not benefit from otherwise. And I suppose whether it is done with rapid fire delivery or long deliberate prose, they are still glimpses I would not have otherwise. Communication is changing. We have so many outlets for it these days. There are times where while updating a status or reading statuses, I am chatting online, and texting and usually the TV or music is playing in the background. How much information can 1 person really process?

These are my Misc Ramblings. They are sure to ramble and almost guaranteed to be misc. But they are a glimpse of me. One that you may not have otherwise, and realizations about myself that I might never have had either, were they not to see the light of day.