"Hello kettle, this is Gary...you're black!"

Since venturing out into the world of blogging I've taken a little flack for it, and rightly so. In the past I have been somewhat vocal about how silly this whole blogging "fad" is. It amused me to see how people seemed to go through the day looking for the next thing to blog... taking pictures for the express purpose of blogging... that sort of thing. Even as I did my first entry, I was still telling myself that would never be me.

Yesterday as I was driving home from Edmonton, I think it was somewhere near Red Deer when I caught myself thinking, "I haven't posted for a few days, I'd better think of something." Shortly thereafter was when the "Neener Neener" fairy smacked me upside the head with the realization that I had become what I had mocked so hard in the past.

There's just something about this silly blog system that is illogically compelling. Maybe it's the idea that people actually read what I write, but if that were truly the case then I could get the same "buzz" from email (you read my emails, right?). Whatever it is, I feel like an addict still in self-denial, "I'm not doing this because I have to, I could walk away any time I want."

Were it not for Facebook, this entry would've been about turning the Lego Jedi Starfighter acquired from eBay into the way cool Sith Starfighter (along with all the photos). Let the mocking begin (or continue, for some of you)... I blog, and I like it. It could be worse, just be grateful I don't know how to turn this into a Podcast.

Edit: May 21

I didn't want to use up a post just for this, so I thought I'd add it on here... My new breakfast of champions: SlimFast with chocolate milk (ice cream optional, but still recommended). Doesn't get much better than that :)

Now what do I do with it...

Originally, I was going to make a blog to mock people who blog (which still may happen periodically)... Apparently I am sometimes prone to the use of sarcasm and I have it on good authority (aka my father-in-law) that I am often a smart... *mouth* (edited for family-friendly viewing).

Michael's blog got me thinking that I might be able to use this space for something other than a daily summary of my events. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against those blogs, it's a nice way to feel connected with family & friends who decide to do silly things like live in Texas or Whitecourt (for someone who is so anti-winter, you're knee-deep in it). If I tried to keep a blog like that, it would look something like this:

Got up, had breakfast (SlimFast & Ice Cream), went to work (in my pj's), made some calls, did some email...

I'd get thrown off the 'net as waves of boredom spread like an epidemic. Of course, I could just be flattering myself in thinking that people would actually read this...