This guy lives in the Cincinatti Zoo and I caught this great profile to use as my icon.
The book Blogging for Dummies says you can get started blogging in as little as 10 minutes with Blogger or WordPress. With Blogger I would agree, but WordPress.com is more complex. Though rolling your own at WordPress.org seems to be an order of magnitude more difficult. I am totally intimidated so far, but plugging away. I just found a comic strip named Pluggers on comics.com and I qualify. Hey I even cropped a photo of my own for the header.
Thoughts on sinking and swimming and pads of butter. 