It’s good to be back in the blogging community. May I say the collective warmth I feel from this great country’s bloggers is both palpable and magnificent.

So this guy walks down my street with a falcon on his arm. True story. Happened the other nite. And we spot him out our window. Which leads us to shrewdly exclaim, “Hey, it’s a guy with a falcon on his arm.”

The X-man, being a fan of the bird of prey – falcon, osprey, harpy eagle – bolts out the front door to encounter this North Dallas oddity. The rest of us follow suit and meet Ray, the guy with a falcon on his arm. Turns out both Ray and the falcon are neighbors of ours. Live a few houses down. And Ray’s an author. Of a book called Neanderthin. A lifestyle book which espouses the value of eating only those things you kill, pick, or pluck. Sounds like a guitar-playing, bow arrow hunting, bin Laden hating guy we know, right? So after he schools us on all things falcon and Neanderthin, he invites us to check out his web site. Where I learn that this guy – Ray – is the official nutritionist to the Ted Nugent radio show.

Other than that, my life bites.