begin the beginning...

web log...
web log...
weblog...
eblog...
blog.

everyone talks about them. some people get paid ridiculous salaries for doing them. i've read them. i've been asked to join them, but i've still never really taken advantage of the blog phenomenon. me, a guy who considers himself on the cusp of all things modern, a lover of technology and reasonably tech-saavy. frankly, i thought they were too over-indulgent and vain. i'm this, i'm that, i think this, listen to me!!! it just seems so unsavory.

so why now?

i guess i just wanted to keep a record of the things that i've done, some sort of record that i could refer back to and think, "yeah, i remember when i did that!" so why not keep a person journal on my laptop? well, i just moved to the Bay Area and i guess after my 43rd phone call to (circle one) friends family-members long-lost-school-mates internet-only-friends, etc., i realized the best and most thorough way to communicate my life was on their terms, in their spare time, when they're available and interested.

also, in a world where phone conversations are replaced by CNN-style, ticker-taped snippets of info, where coffee/tea or a nice dinner is replaced by meeting at a loud bar/party, where my super-sweet "smart phone" drops calls after every 5th sentence, verbal communication has become a thing best left to our ancestors. no one has time to listen to, for example, your vacation to fill-in-the-blank but they've got plenty of time to read about Starlet X's 35th trip to rehab on MSN. so in the spirit of easily digestible, portable, non-time-consuming, at-your-leisure information transfer, here's J in the Bay. read it. don't read it. whatever.

Author's note 1: this is a SAP FREE blog. don't anticipate emotional rants of "spilled-milk" sobbings. although autobiographical, this blog is intended to journal my day-to-day, print-media-style: objective and matter-of-fact. simple...

Author's note 2: i'm going to end things in "..." and "string-words-together-hyphen-style." it's the way i write. don't show this blog to your English professor...