Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
Well, F#$% me – I just accidentally erased a whole bunch of ALL the stuff that I was going to use for my first post! No, seriously, I just lost the whole introduction.
*sigh*
And so I will try to begin again since my first attempt at a blog post ended in complete annihilation. Unfortunately, this do over probably won’t be as good as my first draft. So I’ll [re]start with this: I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’M DOING! I’ve never used WordPress, never attempted to write a blog, haven’t seriously tried to learn a new hobby in forever. Which leads to the obvious question of “why am I doing this?”
I forgot what I wrote before, but it went somewhere along the lines of sharing my thoughts, ideas, rants and raves about the things I encounter in my everyday life. Maybe talk about some of my interests and the few activities I like to do. Share a cigar and a drink… build something out of scrap wood… complain about other people… Actually, I might complain about a lot of stuff. I’m just a regular 38 year old guy, living with my long time girlfriend, our kids, 3 dogs, 3 reptiles, a rabbit, a mortgage, and 2 car notes. I don’t make big money and try not to live beyond my means, so we get by. I don’t like crowds of people, am not always keen on meeting new people, am terrible about keeping up with the friends I do have, and have a small reservoir of patience (hence the chosen name of this blog). My girlfriend says I’m a pessimist, but I counter that I’m a realist. I need to exercise more. Okay, a lot more! My point is, I’m just another guy living in another city. But, I hope to be able to connect with any potential readers who are also dealing with their everydays just like I am.
So, keep an eye out for more posts (or blogs I guess is the proper term…?) from me. Feel free to point at laugh at my newbness, or raise a glass as you think to yourself “exactly!”, or just pass your time while on the toilet. I’ll do my best to keep the grammatical errors to a minimum.
I still can’t believe I lost that entire first draft…
The Antisocial Dad 