More excellence by Waddling Thunder! My answer, of course, is to never ever become the windbag. Say whatever you've got, then stop. You'll be known as the one that dispenses pearls of wisdom. All will thrill at your speech because they will know you will share no extraneous thoughts. The birds will sing and the heavens will open and shower praise upon you.

Okay, not really, but people won't hate you, either.

I really wish I had blogged my first year.