What in the world am I doing?!

I figure that, once my mother sees this website, her first question is going to be, “Why?” So, here it is Mom. I am going to change the world!

In truth, I don’t know how much world changing I’ll be doing. But, as most folks who knew me as a little kid will remember, “Did ya know?” was commonly one of the first sentences they heard spout out of my mouth. Well, in my own way, as you already know, I haven’t stopped saying that. I just do it in maybe a little less subtle way these days.

I find this world to be an amazing place. First of all, we all live on a rock that is traveling 67,000 miles per hour around the Sun. While this same rock is rotating on it’s own axis at a speed of about 1,000 miles per hour (if you are on, or near, the Equator). And, as far as we know, all of this, and the rest of the Universe, is made up of just 118 different elements. (I know this to be true, because when I was in school, I had to memorize the entire Periodic Table of Elements. To be fair, there were fewer elements back in those days. At least, as far as any anyone knew.)

Anyhow, getting back on track, and to try and get to the point, I just want a place where I can post my thoughts, get some feedback, and maybe interact with the world a little. Back in 62′, at a college in Mount Vernon, Iowa, a guy named Martin Luther King Jr said, “I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other, because they don’t know each other, and they don’t know each other because they don’t communicate with each other, and they don’t communicate with each other because they are separated from each other.” Well, now we have this thing called the internet, so we are not so separated from each other any more. As long as we don’t ignore each other.

So those folks who dare to venture into my website, might just get a taste of just about anything I might say on here. (I do promise to try and behave myself as much as possible though.) I’m already making a list (and checking it twice), on a daily basis, about what all I plan to say on here, for as long as I can keep this up. And I’m betting that if any of those folks interact with me on here, or in any other way, about this site, that I’ll probably come up with a bunch more to say than I already plan to say. And I’m going to post some of my photos too! Some of those will probably be of you, and other unfortunate folks whose light bouncing off y’all landed on the image of my camera sensor at one time or another.

So you’ve all been warned. Enter at your own risk! Seriously though, I do hope some of you folks out there will visit, and leave some comments, or shoot me an email, from time to time. Facebook isn’t the only game in town now!

(P.S. This website will probably change a lot over the next few months. I’m still a greenhorn when it comes to this website stuff. So if you show up to the party, and things look a little different, you can rest assured, you are at the right place. And leave me your thoughts, about what you see, and hear.)