Maiden Voyage

It finally happened. Audrey and I have a blog. This historic event has been long in the making because of the interplay of several competing, yet contradictory, factors. First, while I have long been a disciple of the blogosphere, I am also woefully computationally inept, thus preventing me from ever taking the steps to create a blog of my own. Instead, I have been relegated to poring over the blogs of others for hours late at night as I pursue my unhealthy fascination with politics.

On the other hand, Audrey, while a technological genius herself, has had no prior interest in the blogosphere, let alone writing a blog of her own. Thus, she has passed many nights attempting to sleep, awakening occasionally in the wee hours to roll her eyes in my general direction as I sit, laptop in hand, and greedily gobble up whatever hard news I can glean from Fox News, redstate.com, conservativenuthouse.com, and rushlimbaugh.com.

It seemed that, perhaps, our lives would continue forever in this trajectory, each of us possessing only one of the necessary blogging components (me - the interest, Audrey - the competence), until that fateful day this last week when Audrey, in her unending quest to avoid working on her Masters thesis, stumbled across the blog of her graduate advisor . . .

It required mere moments for Audrey to grasp the delight and utter bliss that can be achieved through participation in blogging. Never in our married life have I observed her laugh so hard. Acting quickly on one of my rare flashes of intelligence, I immediately wrapped her in foam and duct tape, to prevent her from injuring herself, as she appeared in danger of falling off the couch in her paroxysms of laughter. Injury avoided, as she lay in her incapacitated state, I glanced at the computer screen to ascertain the source of her mirth. I had read only a few lines of the Jester in the Court of Honor before I too erupted in laughter. Lacking the appropriate protection, however, I immediately fell down and fractured my coccyx. In that moment, though suffering from asphyxia due to the foam strapped to her head, Audrey had one of her many flashes of intelligence - we could combine her vast technical genius with my vast experience reading the blogs of others and create our own blog.

Thus it is that the inaugural blog of josephandaudrey.blogspot.com is being written as I convalesce on our oh-so-soft california king mattress, which, by the way, I recommend to anyone who has not experienced the luxury of sleeping on one.

We hope you have enjoyed our blog's maiden voyage, and that you will continue to visit us in the coming months as we pontificate about the meaning of life, the universe, and everything - as we are wont to do.

And by the way, if you ever happen to wander over to splinger moosebutt's blog, which we highly recommend, make sure that you first wrap yourself in foam and duct tape. And please don't quit reading our blog afterward, just because we're not nearly as funny as he is.