Once upon a time, I had a blog.  It was a good blog.  We posted a lot of goofy pictures, linked to a lot of crazy news stories, snarked on politics and cracked jokes about our own foibles.  We didn’t get a lot of traffic, but it was a place for us to hang out on the Internets.

Then came Facebook, and Twitter, and new jobs, and kids, and we kind of stopped putting stuff on the blog.  No real reason; it just slowed down.

I kind of miss it.

So here’s what I’m proposing: time to get back to the blog.  I’m not promising that what I’m going to be posting here for a while will be smart or insightful; hell, it might not be any good at all.  But I want to get back in the habit of writing something that isn’t dryly legal, to try and stretch some long-unflexed muscles.  If this doesn’t sound like your thing and this is where we part ways, no hard feelings.

So: reintroductions.

I’m Gus.  Hi.  I like to consider myself pretty sociable, but I meet a lot of people, so I apologize if I’ve forgotten your name.  Stick around for a while and I bet we’ll find something in common to talk about.

How I Got Here is going to be something of an open-ended experiment for me. Once upon a time, my sister started a very cool project where she was trying to catalogue old music that meant something to her and tell stories about it.  HIGH is going to be something like that, an appreciation of the pieces of culture and memory that I think are meaningful in some fashion.  (Lest we get too heavy, “meaningful” isn’t the same as “deep” or “insightful” — there’s going to be an entry on Weird Al Yankovic here at some point, just so’s you know.)  It also probably won’t be all that regular, so don’t expect anything EXACTLY at noon on Monday or whatever.  I suspect that when I’m done, it’ll look like some weird conglomeration of stuff, but I assure you that it will all have meant something to me.

And if nothing else, it’ll give me an excuse to post music and video for you to check out, so there’s that.