The Opening Salvo

Back into the blogosphere, a few pounds lighter and a few years older. I quit updating my old blog in December of '06.

Here we are, one recession later and seven states to the left.

My wife (Alicia) and I moved down to the Sunny South(land) in May of 2007. We tucked ourselves nicely into a little one bedroom dealy in the low foothills just a few minutes north of Los Angeles (depending on traffic of course).

I knew I wanted to act, but wasn't ready...for a number of reasons that will probably be enumerated, eviscerated, masticated and generally hashed out in the body of this new blog-tastic experiment.

So, for the last 18 months, I've been Mark the Trucker...Sometimes happily, sometimes very, very unhappily. I drove a semi-truck for a major company all across the map, hauling everything from firewood to recycled plastic pellets.

In February we got a little surprise. We found out a baby was coming! Whoops!

Little Matthew was born a strapping 8 pound 1 ounce lad on the 10th of October. He's trying not to go to sleep as I write.

On the 31st of December I checked my battered old Century Class Freightliner into the headquarters yard in Salt Lake City, Utah, gave back the keys, and was free of my obligations to the company. Though I booked an economy car for the drive home, God showed a sense of humor. They gave me a brand new Sebring Convertible. Seems to follow that a convertible isn't the most attractive vehicle for the 30 degree mean streets of Salt Lake. Better for the sunny climes of Burbank, where I turned it in.

We lumped New Year's and Christmas into one happy ol' day, and now I think we're all caught up.

Thus cometh the days of Mark the Actor.

This will be interesting, if nothing else.