"When are you going to start a blog?" "Are you on MySpace?" "Why don't you write on Xanga?" I'll tell you why, once and for all: Because I'm lazy. And not really all that interesting.

I tried to blog once. The summer I moved to Chicago, I set up a LiveJournal account, with the incredibly pretentious username of a-a-a-a-a, and tried to write a few things. The whole experiment devolved into me just posting what were, to me at least, humorous instant messaging conversations I had with my friends, and the whole thing was all but dropped in a matter of months.

My wife January, on the other hand, has been blogging for years on Xanga. She's good at it. She says thing other than what she had for lunch or describing in agonizing detail how much she hates whatever the weather happened to be like that day. And from what I'm told, marriage involves doing things together, and enjoying common interests. As much as I can't imagine why anyone would be interested in my daily musings, January recently suggested the starting of a joint blog. We have joint checking, so why not a joint blog? Thus, Team Soell is born.

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