My original intent in starting this blog was to document some of the projects I do so that my "reinvent-the-wheel-every-time" strategy might evolve into something a bit less cumbersome and failure prone.  In particular, I want my projects to get cheaper as I get more efficient.  Unfortunately, the names I wanted were already taken, and I think the blog should be at least somewhat tied to the name.  So I will simply have to change the focus a bit from what I wanted to do.

BTW, I hope to be good one day about taking pictures and putting them into these posts, but for tonight I will stick to words--I know that if anyone is reading this I probably just lost you, but tough, it's my blog.

The last six months have brought a lot of changes in my life, and I have learned a ton about life, the universe, and everything, but I'm not going to share those new and vulnerable thoughts until I feel a bit safer here. I'm new to this kind of thing, so bear with me. I'm sure I'll open up more when I start to feel more comfortable here.  It's weird in here--kind of like the training room in the offline Matrix--I imagine I'm sitting in a plain white room that's kind of echo-y.  If you haven't seen The Matrix, you should--just the first one, though.  There are lots of useful parallels to real life, but judging from the second and third ones, I think they were accidental.

I feel I should give a little bit of background about me, but I think I'll leave out the personal stuff for now--still not ready to commit on that level yet.  I have lots of hobbies--in fact, learning new hobbies is probably my real hobby.  Forever, it was reading and gardening, but I don't have time to read much anymore, and I don't really have a garden at the moment, so I guess my new hobby is blogging.  It's a strange hobby to try out, because I'm a very private person generally.  In fact someone asked me recently if my Facebook profile had a virus, because the only things posted were put there by other people. 

I'm a big Tolkein fan, and the thing that comes to mind just now is from The Hobbit (3movies?!).  Bilbo says, "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door."  This blog feels a little like going out my front door, and I must say that I'm a bit nervous about where it will lead.  I'm not really sure if I'm more afraid of it going somewhere, or nowhere.  I think I'd better just hit, "Publish" and not think about it too much.