About 30 minutes ago, while lying in bed asking myself silly questions like: did I shave today, will it rain tomorrow, why is a 2L of milk so expensive, does everyone think Tim Horton's is as overrated as I do, could the Montreal Canadiens possibly win their division this year, how long til Conan gets replaced again, will the Canadian dollar ever surpass the American dollar, why was the TV show 'Lost' so confusing, etc.... I decided to start a blog. 'Why?' you may ask. Well, simply put: I like to write. I always have, since I was young. I wrote poetry as a kid (one of my poems, as a letter informed me, was so good that it was going to be published in a poetry book to be sold all over Canada and the U.S.; that turned out to be a Bernie Madoff-esque scam).
I digress.
The point is, I enjoy writing. For those of you who know me well, you'd know that when I was part of 97.5 K-Rock's 'Mike and Bill Almighty 2' in 2009, I kept a daily blog. I thought then that it would be cool for me to maintain a blog of my random thoughts, life stories, rants, etc, but in the end, I never got around to it. My daughter was about 4 months old then and was becoming quite demanding. Then I went away for 8 months for work. As they say, life happened.
But now I have decided that despite the fact that 'life happens' every day, that I am going to *attempt* to maintain a blog regardless of what perils may come my way. I plan on keeping it simple: I'll talk about life, how my day was, current events, sports, poker, technology, random crap, etc. I may use big words sometimes (occasionally, a big word springs to mind which I then am committed to using in a sentence sometime in the near future), but usually my entries will consist of pretty basic English and will be fairly easy to read. I won't make any spelling mistakes, because I am a pretty good speller and because Windows puts a red squiggly line beneath a word when you spell it wrong, and I am good at spotting those! I am very opinionated, and oftentimes, wrong in that opinion, but that won't stop me from spouting off and running my mouth. If you don't like what I have to say, you can do one/all of three things: 1) respond accordingly, 2) stop reading my blog or 3) cram it up your hole. I'll keep this mostly PG, although at some point I will surely drop a curse word or two... or ten. Depends on the mood I am in.
I will admit that I am nervous about starting my own blog. The internet can be a cruel and unfriendly place, but I have decided to gamble and start one anyway. I encourage any and all feedback to anything I post. Where I come from, any feedback is good feedback.
I look forward to *hopefully* entertaining the masses and becoming a huge internet celebrity blogger superstar... wait a minute, that's not what I want at all. *Ahem* I look forward to sharing my thoughts, as random and obscure as they may be, for you to enjoy and laugh at or criticize. To use a lame analogy, if this were a roller coaster ride, you'd just be getting strapped in. *click* *click* *CLICK* You're set to go. Except as soon as the roller coaster starts moving, everything in front of you becomes blank. Why? Because much like this blog, you have no idea where this is going. At times, this may be dull and unexciting, like riding slowly on a flat surface. But at other times, it will be crazy and wild, as if you were going through several loop-de-loops and racing down steep inclines with no end in sight.... The point is, my blog won't always be exciting for you. Sometimes I'll post about the latest Montreal Canadiens game (probably only after they win because I'm fickle like that), which you, the reader, may not enjoy. But other times, I'll post about random shit that goes on in my home town, or anywhere really. Random shit that is engaging and enraging and dramatic and controversial (because deep down, everyone loves controversy). And those entries you might enjoy a lot. Who knows!?
Some blogs have a neat quote or blip or signature that lets it stand apart from other blogs, and mine will be this: at the end of each entry, I will post the most random, obscure, useless factoid that I can think of. Here's how I am going to close out this entry:
Did you know that stop lights are green 66% of the time, yellow 12% of the time and red 22% of the time? I bet you didn't!
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