So I'm back...

Hi, it's me again.

Well, "it's me again" depending on who you are. If you were formerly a reader of the blog known as "They Still Call Me Daddy," then yes, it's me again.

If you're not someone who ever had the fortune/misfortune (I leave that determination to the reader) to stumble across my cyber-missives, then welcome, I suppose.

In any case, I'm going to try blogging again. This is, I believe, my third attempt. Or maybe fourth. It has been at least three.

Whatever the number, each time I've tried blogging, it has always ended with me whimpering about having to stop because I have no time to blog. And by all accounts, that's true.

But it's true only because I used to insist on blogging every single day. And even if you're only writing a few sentences, coming up with blog material every day is a drag. Both for you and for me.

So my wife (her name is Terry...she's very smart and pretty) made the sensible suggestion that maybe I could just blog occasionally. At first I resisted because I have a mental defect known as "All or Nothing Syndrome." Either I do something all-out, full-force, gonads-to-the-wall, so to speak...or I don't do it at all.

For reasons that escape even me, since October 2013 I've opted for "don't do it at all."

Which is silly, of course. In the 14 months since I shut down They Still Call Me Daddy, I've often had the itch to get back online and write. But my life is such that I can't do it every day, so I didn't do it at all.

Yet somehow I've finally managed to convince myself of two things: I don't have to write every day, and when I do write, it doesn't have to be 5,000 words.

This, you understand, is a revelation for me.

So the blog is back. If you were with us in The Old Days, you'll notice three important differences in this latest incarnation:

1. The name of the blog. I want to say that I've dropped TheyStillCallMeDaddy.com for philosophical and emotional reasons. Making a clean break and all. But the reality is that some Japanese person snatched up the original domain name after I abandoned it, and I can't seem to get it back. And while TheyStillCallMeDaddy.net or TheyStillCallMeDaddy.us may be viable alternatives, I like the .com thing and decided to switch to something else.
   
2. As you may have gathered, I'm not going to write every 24 hours liked I used to. Days will likely go by between posts. Maybe even weeks. I can't say for sure, but I'll write when I can and, to be honest, when I feel like it. If you're crazy enough to want to know when a new post is up, I think you'll find somewhere on this screen a place where you can enter your email address and ask to be notified. But be warned: Given my obsessive personality, there will be times when I post 14 times in 48 hours or something crazy like that. It's just how I am. I make no apologies.
   
3. This may be as long a post as you're going to see around here. I no longer feel the need to hit some magical word mark with every post. Sometimes it's just going to be a few sentences. Or maybe a photo. Or maybe a photo with a few sentences. That's so much more enjoyable for you and obviously easier for me. And at this point, I'm not sure whose convenience I'm more worried about. Probably my own.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by and/or coming back. I really do appreciate it. Let's see if we can make it last this time around...