I know something about a lot of different things, but I'm an expert on very few. I'm not a great writer, but I do a pretty good job of concisely conveying information. Often, I find myself pondering something during the day and thinking "I'd like to develop this futher", "I should share this with people", and building on the first two "I wonder what other people would think about this?"
With those thoughts in mind, I'm resolving to blog. Clearly I've tried before and failed, as all I managed was two updates on my trip to Australia last year. This time, I plan on simply putting things out there with however much time I have to develop them, so you can expect a mix of random thoughts along with well-researched ideas. Before I start linking to my blog I will have several posts written, so the chance of anyone actually reading this post is small - which is fine with me, because it's not very interesting. Fitting with my purpose of having the blog, I'm trying to develop my ideas about having a blog by posting on it.
I expect my topics to range from sports, to business and the economy, the arts, music, video games, dogs, food, nutrition and exercise, and whatever is on my mind at the time. Posts that I didn't write in the past but wish I did include the role of numbers in sports (everyone knows 715 and 755, right?) and how steroids affects/affected this, the leveraging and reselling of loans by financial institutions (I started reading about this back in 2005 and it scared me then), food experiments that worked or didn't (ever grilled a whole chicken?) among others. I may go back and address some of these as they come up again - especially the topics not related to current events.
I expect that my writing will draw on personal experience and/or what is going on with me at the time, but for the most part I'm not going to use this as a platform to announce to the world what I did last weekend. If/when I do write "e/n" (everything/nothing) posts, I'll attempt to put a spin on them to make them a bit more interesting.
There are also times when I will simply post a link to an article or another blog with some a few notes. Hopefully these will be minimal, but sometimes I read something and just don't have anything to add.
Here's to being interesting! Let's hope I can pull it off :-)
-jpw
