Preamble

I have been blogging for a long time but only for myself. That is very selfish. My daughter's public blog has inspired me to go online and share my musings with the world (or at least those who can find this address.)

My site name might seem odd at first blush but it is on purpose and is meaningful for the following reasons:

1. "Crotcheted" I made up from "crotchet." Not the french word "crochet" in which the "t" is silent and is some sort of needlepoint. And not a form of "crotch" (though that is a good guess) which is a "fork or bifurcation" even though "bifurcation" is one of my favorite words. I put the "ed" at the end of "crotchet to change it from a noun to an adverb to partially describe my blogging style. It means "a highly individual and usually eccentric opinion or preference." If you know me and have been privy to my work, you'll know this to be true. If not, you'll soon find out.

2. "Vagarious" means "erratic, unpredictable or an extravagant manifestation of action, or notion." Well said if I may say so myself.

3. "Musings" you all know to be ideas "meditative and thoughfully abstracted."

4. Put them all together and that is what you are going to be treated to. Other terms that whiff of what I do are also descriptive: "whimsical" ("an eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of mind" is accurate though overused so I avoided it) and "caprice" ("a sudden, impulsive and seemingly unmotivated notion or action.")

5. One posting might be about my current projects (right now it's studying the lives of the Presidents of the United States. I am on Andy Johnson. He's cooler than most give credit.) The next post might be my observations on dirt. There will probably be stuff from my work, church, and family. Some stuff will be funny and some will be dead serious. Many times you'll never know which is which. How vagarious is that? There will be quotes, thoughts, incomplete thoughts, sentences I've been working on, words I've discovered, irritations thrust in my path, and the simple and complicated joys of life on planet earth. Oh, also, I am pretty sure every now and again I will rant. Maybe more often; I can't predict it. Sometime I will muse about "the rant" and if you get it, you'll get it, and if not, you won't.

6. Lastly, the KRiB is to protect my anonymity. It's an acronym so those who know me, know what it means and those that don't can't track me down and kill me. I'm far too unconfrontational to want that. To know me is to love me but I don't want to make eye contact with strangers ... unless I choose to: my time, my place - my blog, my choice.