Let's Try This Again

Over the years, I've started a number of rather specific blogs and failed to maintain them on any regular basis.  While part of me thinks I just don't have the discipline to be a regular blogger, I find myself routinely drafting everything from musings about unusual music to rants against companies that don't seem to understand customer service (!).  With nowhere to post these things in any consistent way, it finally dawned on me that I what I really needed was a blog that was conceivably of interest to people whose range of interests was as diverse as my own.  To that end, here's my introduction to Idle Musings.  While I'm not quite sure how regularly I'll manage to post, the intent is to do at least a post or two a month.  If you stumble across this blog, please post a friendly comment or two and let me know if any of the particular topics resonated with you (obviously, it's premature to do that yet!).

For what it's worth, here (in no particular order) are some things that have been on my mind lately and which I expect to write about in the coming months:

• Early Mozart operas
• Beethoven's String Trios
• What does it mean to be "good" (part ethics/part philosphical discourse)
• What makes a "real man" (trust me, this one is NOT about being macho...quite the contrary, it's motivated by the way a very dear friend of mine is being treated by an ex who seems to have nothing better to do with his time than make the people around him miserable)
• The demise of the search engine (how everything from the "we've got to return LOTS of results" mentality to sponsored links have destroyed the usefulness of most search engines)
• The customer is always wrong (musings on why so few service providers seem willing to take input from their customers)
• The psychology of the Law of Attraction (this will probably be a recurring topic since I'm starting to work on a book about this)
• The old stage roads in Yosemite National Park

A note on the last one: you may have noticed that there's a blog called Yosemite Roads out there.  I started it many years ago at a time when I hadn't yet done enough research to keep the posts going.  Although I live on the east coast right now, I visit Yosemite as much as I can and have since hiked the length of most of these old roads and would like to start getting back to writing about them...I'm not sure yet if I'll fold those into this log or go back to maintaining the original blog.