Elections, celebrations and introductions...

With the primary elections only five days away, the Patuxent rags are charging head-first into the voters' knowledge vacuum with all you could ever want to know about the candidates and primary races, including a mention of the local blogs in this piece. Although the papers' endorsements came out last week, readers are given the chance to lobby for votes today in one of the longest "Letters" pages I've ever seen.

Aside from that, there isn't much of note in the Flier/Times, which is good because it's Thursday, Band Practice Day, and I have to take care of a few things (setting my fantasy football lineups) before trekking down to Annapolis. This admission is, naturally, just a pathetic excuse for today's pathetic output.

Before I go, however, I want to point out two things. First, it's the one-year anniversary/birthday of this blog. From this humble beginning, the blog has grown into...well, whatever it is now.

Second, after a limited release garnered favorable responses from people who are admittedly predisposed to giving me favorable responses (read Family), I'm sharing with a wider audience the location of my other blog, One Daily Shot. After I got a nice camera for my birthday, I decided I should learn to take better pictures. Using the same logic that prompted the creation of this blog -- improvement through constant practice -- I decided to take more pictures and force myself to post one a day. So, now when I take the mutt on walks, I bring the camera and look for a shot worthy of the Hayduke name. As you can see, the results have been mixed.