The Groundbreaking

Well, it's finally here. It's been a couple of years in the making and took over four months' worth of work in my spare time but it's finally here. I know what you're thinking...you're unemployed, all your time should be spare time, right? Not exactly but that's beside the point. Since this is my first post, I thought I might share the story of how this site came about, in particular the weblog portion, and what plans I have for it. I'll skip the part of the story detailed on my about page, but I would encourage you to check it out, if for no other reason than to grab a snazzy picture of my debonair self in my bachelor days.

I first thought of grabbing the souzek.com domain a couple of years ago for personal and family fun through technology. I researched it over the course of a few late evenings in a dorm room until I got that completely overwhelming feeling of ignorance on the topic that often accompanies research. I promptly proceeded to forget about it. The idea resurfaced late last year and I did even more research and realized that it was actually a feasible undertaking. I was too busy to do anything with it until spring break but once the opportunity presented itself, I pounced on it. I found a wonderful host, registered the domain name, and began work on the most important part of the site--my wife's. That was completed in April and my site has finally come about today, the second of October.

I first became aware of weblogs (from here on referred to as "blogs") about a year ago while browsing the ageless project for the first time. I looked for the site whose author's birthday was closest to mine and it happened to be lia's. I began to regularly read her site and found the content, presentation and concept fascinating, and the same was true of many of the blog links on her page. From there, I developed a daily routine of reading her blog along with my other daily sites, and then came another and a couple more, until eventually I began to feel like a part of this terrific online community. However reading them just wasn't enough. I wanted to participate.

So that pretty well brings us up to the present. On this page, I'd like to discuss anything and everything that comes to mind, for my own therapeutic reasons as much as for the participation in the community. I hope I am one day able to be join in this community discussion and contribute something to it, but if not, it's enough to know that at least I'm out here giving it a shot.