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Thursday, August 31, 2006

A Work In Progress And The Great Language Barrier

I’m still adding links and doing some minor tweaking. The goal is to get the site set up and to not have to spend a lot of time maintaining it other than posts. It’s all a work in progress so, please, bear with me.

Now, on to something unrelated. Earlier this week, my mother in law arrived from Ukraine. Since there is a huge language barrier—I don’t speak Russian and she does not speak English—time has been rather pressed. It’s OK, though. I’m certain that after a few days we’ll develop a sort of working language based on pointing, hand-signals, and help from my wife and son.

Right now I’m wishing that I had put even nominal effort into learning Russian during the past couple of years. Oh well, I guess it’s crash-course time.

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

New Blog, First Post

Since this is the first post of this site I feel compelled to express just why the hell I’m doing it. Of course, it would be easier if I really did know just why the hell I’m doing it, which I don’t. I know exactly why I write, it’s all here,

The best answer to that question is, because it’s the cheapest vacation I can think of. What I mean by that, is when you create a world full of various characters and events, it’s better than reading a good novel. One has control over the people, places, and events in a world and reality of one’s choosing. All of this can be done simply by letting your mind wander and rudimentarily organizing it all with the act of writing it down. I’m sure Freud would have a thing or two to say about all of this. Thankfully, he’s dead.

I’m just not exactly sure of the purpose of the site. The nearest I can come to explaining the purpose of this web site is that it’s a place for me to talk about what I’m working on, how I’m doing it, and what I’m doing with it. Hopefully, over time, I’ll meet other writer types and learn something along the way. Other than that, I don’t know exactly where this site will go. So, the only thing I do know about this site is that it will focus on writing.

We’ll see what happens from here.