Long Time, No Blog

It's become apparent that the recurring theme on my blog is I don't keep it updated. I blame my wife and kids. Lucky for them blogging ranks right behind cleaning my car's tires on the priority scale.

I was listening to AC/DC and finally heard a drum fill on one of the songs. Granted it was Soul Stripper from 74 Jailbreak, so they may not have completely incorporated no drum fills into their philosophy at that point. Still, I don't remember hearing one on any of their other songs.

There is another Daniel E. Smith here in Greensboro who writes to the newspaper a little too much. He has this sarcastic tone that makes people think it is me, but it's starting to get a little out of control. The first letter was in the sports section. It was about how terrible a name the Greensboro Grasshoppers is. Of course, the name change is all about getting more merchandising revenues, so I can't say I care too much. Unless they dye the pretzels and beer green, it won't impact my baseball experience. More recently, he had a letter in the Sunday paper about the Greensboro police. Most of the letter talked about police inquiries into alleged wrong doing by an officer, and that these inquires always find that the officer behaved appropriately. Kind of anti-police, but not the worst thing I've ever heard. There was a paragraph in it that said to avoid police brutality you should cooperate w/ the police. Then it ends w/ the fact that the city isn't legally responsible to reimburse citizens who are wronged (some kind of English common law holdover I think). So I didn't really disagree w/ anything he said, but it's not the sort of thing that I want to let the whole world know my views on. I could handle people asking me if I authored these letters, but somebody called my house on Sunday wanting to tell me her opinion on what I wrote in the newspaper. Worse yet she called while I was watching the NFL. That was the last straw. I'm going to get my phone number listed as Dan and Maria Smith.