Beginning of the Blog

This is the beginning of the blog.

I am starting this blog as a means of documenting my personal doings, especially with respect to projects that I am involved in.  One of the most powerful motivations behind this blog is the regret that I feel for not documenting my previous thoughts and projects and losing a great deal of it to my horrid memory.  After years of resisting any kind of planner/calendar use at a high level, I have finally convinced myself that I would function better if I planned my life out some.  As a result of this realization, I have begun to more deeply ingrain myself into the Google application suite, which includes Blogger.


My expectations for this blog:

  1. The primary subject that I plan on posting about is whatever project I am working on and have made significant progress with.  This function of the blog has been inspired by the many hands-on, technical blogs and digital portfolios that I have seen while looking at cool shit on the internet.
  2. Another post type that I plan on having is a snapshot in which I describe where I am in life at the moment.  I think that I would like to look back on posts like this.
  3. Though I expect no traffic, I will be writing this blog as if people are going to read it.  Also the chance of someone being able to read it will help with my accountability.
  4. Though I think that I may try to post with some regularity, I doubt that will happen.  Expect erratic blogging. 
  5. Project documentation will also be done with GitHub and the YouTube channel linked to this account and I will include links when proper.
  6. There will be lots of pictures.
Alright, now I guess we'll see how I do.

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