Lunch Day and some other non-sequitor thoughts

 The day the 45th President of the United Sates got a hole-in-one was a day never to be forgotten. It is in that same spirit of the occasion, that I dedicate this inaugural post to the time I had lunch at the Missouri Orthopedic Institute. Unfortunately, I took no pictures.

I do feel happy for all of those happy iPhone users who will be enjoying their new lock screens this fall, even if I am not among them. If you have an iPhone that was released in 2017 or later, I would highly encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to make your iPhone your own, assuming you're not borrowing it from someone else.I did not originally intend for this to be a speculative blog, and you have my permission to quote me on that whenever I do speculate about the future, which is something that I do quite often enough in real life to be too much for my own good.

Just what kind of Blog is this going to be? It's far too early for me to say. Of course, the subject matter of upcoming posts will be on topics that are of interest to me. I do not wish to pigeonhole myself into writing just one kind of article, and this blog offers flexibility that allows me to label my blog posts by category so that with time, once this blog has a lot more content on it, you could be able to filter down to just the content you want to read.

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