First Post Ever

There's a lot going on in my life. I've got 3 daughters - two of whom are now off to University. The third one, being only 3, isn't close. That means that my wife and I are dealing with both "Empty Nest Syndrome" and first day of pre-Kindergarten at the same time. Whereas I thought having the little one around would blunt the trauma of losing the other two, it turns out that the opposite is true: The little one (let's call her "Micaela"), is a constant reminder of the other two as small children, and the other two make me very aware of how fleeting it all is.

On top of the dynamics of coming to grips with my own mortality, I've also got a new tv season to deal with, overcoming shin splints so I can get back to running Half Marathons, a business to help run, a Zombie book series to finish reading, and now - a Blog to populate with amusing content. So far, it's looking like tv and Zombies will win out.

So what brings me here? A few years ago I decide to start posting stuff to Facebook to see what social networking was all about. I found a bunch of friends, made a bunch of friends, and discovered (or re-discovered) how much I like attention. I never ever used my FB status to convey status. To me, it was always a "morning smile" (like we used to have in one of Toronto's newspaper when I was a kid). In fact, it took me many months to realize that you could read other people's postings too. (Sometimes - not often, mind you - I found others to be amusing. Usually, I couldn't figure out how I was supposed to react to the news that they were eating peanut butter, or to their cut-and-paste of song lyrics.)

People started to encourage me to use Twitter (yeah right, even fewer characters) or to start Blogging. It took me this long to try.

For those of you who don't know me personally, I'm not nearly as arrogant as I am making myself sound (what you can't see is that I just accidently typed the previous sentence without the word 'not' in it - I guess that tells you something). I have no idea if, when, or how I'll use this platform as an outlet for my stifled creativity. We'll see how it goes.

My guess is that while the title of the blog is about making sense, I'll be doing little of that. You're welcome to read along, but you have to realize that my focus is really on amusing myself. That said, if I amuse you too it'll make me happy to know it. (It'll make me a lot less happy to know if I piss you off or anything, so feel free to keep those thoughts to yourself). My daughters know that I'm understating my need for positive reinforcement, but those of you who've been reading my FB statuses also know that.

See you. The end.