The first of many behind the times mental meanderings...

     Ok, so...I've done it.  I've decided to open my own "blog space."  Who knows why.  I did Myspace when it was new, but got way, way too many "Look at my nekkid pics!" invites to be comfortable anymore.  I started doinking around on there, and moved to Facebook.  Yeah, before Facebook was cool (but slightly after they allowed non .edu addresses to be accepted.  So I'm cooler than you, but not as cool as I could be. LOL) 

     Anyway, the entire point of this is to get me writing again.  I used to write prolifically in school.  Granted, I'm 15+ years removed from that, but I'm looking forward this time.  I know what I could do then, which means in theory I can do so again, but hopefully be better.  I have two book ideas in my head.  Frankly I think they are pretty nifty ideas...but then, I thought of them, so I should hope I think they are keen.  Yeah, I said it, "Keen."  Live with it.   But I figure if I get myself writing, even nonsensical ravings in my mind, then I can slowly work towards actually sitting down and writing out more than "Chapter 1, It was a dark and stormy night."

     I'm still figuring out what I'm going to be.  I know who I am.  But what I'm doing is an entirely different story.  My life for 14 years has been dominated (as it should be) as my identity as a father.  Nearly 9 of those years as a full-time stay at home Dad.  Alex enters Kindergarten this fall.  While this is a momentous occasion in our family, frankly it has me a little trepedatious of the wide open days ahead.  Sure, I could sink a LOT of time into my games, or the web, Facebook or this blog...but Karen muttered something about "productive" and "beat your ass" in reference to "doing nothing."  I dunno...when she looks at me a certain way, and her eyebrows draw closer together as they tilt downward, I tend to duck, cover and plug my ears.   I kid, I kid, I never plug my ears.

     So I've decided flat out that at this juncture in my life college is not for me.  More on that another time.  I'm looking at photography, taking a few classes so I know what I'm actually doing and going that route.  Yet these book ideas keep resurfacing.  I keep seeing not only a need for one of them, but an unspoken desire to read something of what I have been thinking about for so many years.  So maybe this is just the subtle way of telling me, "It's time to focus, Michael.  Sit down and get that stuff down on paper." 



     And thus, here I go.  Welcome to the ride...(elipses intentional as there will be more to come.)