I thought waiting to start this blog until the day that represents the French Revolution seemed appropriate, so here we go.

Still not sure how often I will post here. Since I started the first version of this blog, one thing I have noticed is that my 'friends' are far more interested in promoting their own blogs than reading mine. That's also part of the reason for the move to a more complete blogging platform- the blog is not really going to be for my friends anymore, but hopefully appeal to a wider audience. We'll see; I am finding the whole blogging, social networking thing to be extremely narcissistic, and even though I am as guilty as anyone, I think I would like to spend more time in the real world, interacting with live human beings. I'll probably change my mind on that once I start doing it and am reminded of how much live human beings suck sometimes...

So, Bastille Day. Some interesting differences between this day and the 4th of July. On the 4th, the US actually declared its independence with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. For a country so heavily dependent on foreign oil and cheap foreign labor, I find this term to be pretty ironic these days.

Bastille Day, on the other hand and like many things Fran