Let's see how long this lasts

So this is my blog. Ostensibly, it's a blog about delivering pizzas and related mental flotsam and jetsam, but I very highly doubt it'll all be about pizzas. Because, frankly, making pizza delivery interesting--in any meaningful day-in-day-out kind of way--is difficult.

Pizza guys are in kind of a weird karmic spot. We technically work in the food industry, but we don't have the years of training and artistic sensibilities of trained chefs; we spend the bulk of our days in our vehicles, but there's no exhaustive training process, ala long haul truckers or NASCAR drivers; we're delivery people, but don't even get the hipster romanticism of bike couriers.

No my friends, the person who brings you your pizza rarely has any special qualifications or skills that he brings to the task of not dropping your food. Delivery drivers aren't even that strenuously vetted in most cases: as long as you have access to a semi-reliable vehicle and can prove yourself reasonably willing and able to refrain from masturbating onto a customers front step, you've got a job waiting for you.

Which isn't to say that I'm completely cynical about my job. Just that I'm self aware enough to know where it puts me on the food chain of "things people will reliably want to check out when they should be working instead."* So, from time to time, I'll write about other things that strike me. Maybe I'll review a movie from my DVD collection. Perhaps I'll turn extra-meta and blog about how I'm avoiding doing my dishes by blogging about avoiding doing my dishes. I can't promise you that you'll laugh all the time. Or, at least, I can't promise that the laughter won't be directed at me, rather than with me. Though, I guess as long as YOU'RE laughing, what do you care where it's going?

Anyway, this is entry number one. If you're reading this, you can feel free to tell all of your friends that you were there from the beginning. Though if you're going to do that you might want to do it soon since (with my propensity for following through on things), the end might be three or four days hence. In the mean time, feel free to check back for new posts. I don't promise daily content, though I'll certainly try. If there are things you want to know or would like to read about, drop me a line and I'll take it under advisement. If you wind up liking something, tell your friends; like everyone else on the internet, my sense of self worth is tied almost entirely to hit counts and friend totals.

Mahalo.

*The answer, depending upon how much you can get away with looking at from your workplace server, is somewhere between 8th and 119,990th. I know I place under things like: sports, politics, reddit.com, facebook, twitter, email forwards from your grandmother and LOLcats. Then, for that magic few of you who work for places too stupid or trusting to install a content filter, there's always porn.