Happy Blogday!

Well, 34 years old doesn't seem all that long once you've gotten there...

Yesterday was my birthday which was spent as quietly as two young sons would allow. Spending time with them is eye-opening in many ways - none of which I will talk about right now since I've only got 5 minutes before bed... ahh bedtime, something once hated and now nearly revered.

I spent a fair bit of time on the phone with the folks in Virginia, got Mom started on her own blog (check out the link for Me Mum), and wandered around my cousin Eric's homepage. Geez I miss that guy. It seems like yesterday we were spending nearly every other day together.

Well... more soon. Yeah - I'm a sloooww typist.

W-w-www-w-W-H-Y !?!?!?

I am laughing to myself right now.... actually my wife is laughing at me for doing so, so I must be laughing out loud... AT myself.

Anyway - back to reality. I always thought that a blog SHOULD start with some reason WHY it exists. Of course, to define "always" you'd have to consider that blogging has been around for all of like 8657 nanoseconds (in dog years).

Most of my family and extended family and WAY-OUT-THERE family (that's a real demographic designation - look it up here: see six lines below this.com**) are happily touting their blogs as some combo of thoughts, musings, and weirdness - all appear to be recurring themes, especially the "weirdness." Heck, why don't you just read 'em and decide for yourself - after all, isn't that what we Americans do with everything anyway?

**WAY-OUT-THERE family def: [of YouKnowWhoYouAreian origin] 1) Any member, original or linked via matrimony, of the A*****s/Pl*****y clans whose ingrown toenails of Stratfordian thought and Hardwickian oddity set them indiscriminately apart from the rest of society. 2) them 3) us.

Herein lies the reason for the blog - keep up with the family, keep people smiling because life should be laughed at, and an attempt to make a blog unlike the average blog.

Blog: [of Nerdian origin] def: self-centered pseudo-website of eccentric origins and ecclectic whim for those of society too lazy to make a real website.