The road goes ever on and on...

I could tell you about my visit to the federal courthouse today, but frankly, it wasn't very interesting (though apparently both Scooter and Abramoff will be tried in that building, so perhaps more interesting visits and posts will follow) and I would rather comment on something more entertaining.

So anyway, I'm finally giving in and sorta getting sucked into this blogging thing (yeah, like 4 years behind everyone else, but no matter) and so tried to leave my very first non-political commentary (I tend to leave *well-reasoned* comments on conservative blogs) comment on a friend's blog, only to discover that I apparently must actually maintain a blog on that site in order to post as anything except "anonymous" (if any livejournal users care to enlighten me otherwise, please feel free, otherwise...) Bah! Fie! Fie I say! ... why do I get the feeling that this blog is going to turn into a "posts only appear when Erik gets annoyed by something and feels like sharing?" Maybe it's just my imagination.

Right, so actually getting down to the point, a friend has pledged to walk from Bag End to Rivendell and beyond, a journey of 458 miles (as seen here)... at the gym. I won't be joining the "nerds on treadmills" team, but it sounds like a really neat idea, so I'll periodically update the approximate milage that I rack up stalking... err, hiking around DC. Hey, I'll even be carrying a "great burden" during most of those miles, sure it'll be a laptop and lawbooks instead of an evil source of ultimate Power... *insert clever comment about how law is actually more evil than the One Ring* Anyway, I'm going to retroactively count my walk to the store and back this evening, so the grand total to date is 1 mile, putting me somewhere on the lane heading west.

Oooo, I'm out the front gate.