New Mike

I am a changed man. I never intended to make a change, but sometimes I don't even recognize myself anymore.

One recent development is that I am slowly becoming Captain Barbossa. I am not sure how this started, exactly, but I suddenly find myself eating two or three apples a day. Beware, you scalawags!

That doesn't even bother me too much. Ironically, the more startling change was fully exposed this week when I found myself gently reprimanded by the instructor of my online class for my anti-war, pacifist stance. Can you imagine me taking a pacifist stance so strongly that I had to be put straight? I was the kid that wanted nothing more than to grow up to earn a living shooting Russians. (Hey, it was the Cold War, okay?) Now I am the guy who gets people riled up because I think their military service is over-rated. What is this world coming to?

Hopefully, the New Mike will have more success than New Coke ever did.