In the beginning...

So, as resistant as I have been to blogs, I have finally caved in and decided to start one. Here is my first post to see if it works.

You can thank a few coalescing factors for my sudden reversal: 1) I had to setup a blogger.com account to help debug some issues with someone else's blog; 2) I've been in an extended period of darkness recently, and my good friend Melia suggested that I write down some of my thoughts to help get things out, so I realized that blogging could be the right balance of structured/unstructured writing for me; and 3) my friend Jeremy, who has always been an early adopter of technology, has been blogging for a while and has convinced me of the merits of keeping one. As all of my friends know, my brain is always churning, regardless of whether I want it to or not, so writing my thoughts and ideas down in unstructured, time irreverent entries might help me keep track of it all without having the pressure of keeping a journal or attempting to write some sort of masterpiece.

Suddenly, my fortunes have changed again for the better, so I won't have the dark, disturbing, and bitter entries that I expected to start with. However, I may revisit those thoughts in the future to help me gain some clarity on the ebb and flow of my life. In the mean time, I will have to leave you with thoughts of puppy dogs frolicking in a field. Awww... how cute.