Hate to be a downer...but it wouldn't be appropriate for me to not to mention my Uncle Charlie Pike.
He passed away on Monday night after a really short bout with cancer. I could tell you the whole story about this family, but you'd never believe me and then you'd never come back to the blog.
This is easy...from my humble beginnings as the child of a mill worker and midwife* in Bay City, Michigan to my rise to infamy in Chicago, Illinois...I don't take anything too seriously, and find myself surrounded on a daily basis by the mundane and the unbelievable.
I believe that Thomas Edison had it right...I have not failed, I've just found 1000 ways that don't work.
Oh...and if you subsitute fireman for millworker and shoe retailer for midwife...I haven't lied at all in this part of the profile.
And...if you notice below, I'm one of those nerds who can find joy in both Star Wars AND Star Trek.