In the beginning.....

I'm tired, I haven't had enough sleep, and I'm jangly on too much coffee and tea. So why am I doing this?

Partly because some of the conversations which I've started on the blogsites of others may need to continue without cluttering up their comments-sections (see the interesting stuff that gets added underneath Dov Bear's posts, for instance), partly because a new year is the right time to start something new.