I’ve taken a trip down memory lane and wondered if over time this blog has met any of the goals I had when I first started it. My baby, this blog and site, came together out of nothingness on a cold dank, dark day; November 25, 2002 to be exact. FDR himself put it best when he said my blog’s first day was “a date which will live in infamy.” Jedi Master and height-challenged muppet, Yoda voiced his praise of me with the memorable phrase “The Farce is strong in this one” whilst his young protege Obi Wan Kinobi, remarked “it’s as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.” He was of course referring to people who were stupid or those that thought they were funny who ran as chaff before the wheat when I launched this place. JFK himself gave a speech to the people of the world when my website rose from the electronic ether. Who can forget his stirring famous words “Ask not what Vin can do for you; ask what you can do for your Vin.”? I can’t. *sniff* I get all teary-eyed when I think back on his voice ringing in my head. *sniff* What a great guy… *sniff* I miss him. (Someone[s] didn’t according to the Zapruder footage.)

It’s been almost four years since I started Navarino Unincorporated and I have to say looking back on everything that’s happened that I am vastly surprised at how easily this little “corner of the web” of mine has held up to the vision and goals I had when I started it all so long ago. People constantly ask me how I could hold to my guns and keep this site on the right track and never falter from the path I first set when I started it. Everyone’s been constantly amazed that I’ve been able to reach all the goals I set for this place and I have to admit even though people don’t believe me that it’s been shamelessly easy to do. Really. See, I had no goals so MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Whew. What a relief! Man, that really was easy!

Why, you can almost say it was no effort at all. See kids, accomplishing and maintaining goals when you have none is extremely easy and light on a fragile ego. Nothing is worse than setting a goal and not attaining it. A repeated pattern of non-accomplishment can lead to self-confidence problems and feelings of inadequacy. You could turn into a loser. Nothing is more dangerous than reaching for a goal that isn’t automatically fulfilled immediately by not having one; while auto-reaching non-existant goals leads to winners, self-confidence and the pure undiluted taste of victory. Best yet, you can never set a non-existant goal too low; the lower you make the goal the faster you win. Why try and try and try again until you succeed? That’s crazy talk and sounds an awful like it would require tremendous exertion and probably lead to repetitive stress injuries. Plus there’s no substitute for immediate success through non-goals; think I’m wrong - ask Sisyphus. He’d eagerly trade his place in history for a chaise lounge and some Rolling Rock brewskis instead of going to all that freaking bother…

And that folks is how you too can succeed and make it look easy. Now if you don’t mind I have to go and tell an interviewer from Animal Planet what I want out of a leopard. Two things: warm trendy clothing and a nice flank steak that melts in my mouth…