Welcome

Welcome ladies and gents,

This is my first attempt at bloggin'. It's not somethin' I ever figured I'd be doin'. I ain't the kind of fella to sit here and spout off 'bout my emotions or cry 'bout whatever asshole in hollywood is on the cover of some tabloid. I don't have weird conspiracy theories bout aliens or gods. I dunno what it is bloggers really do exactly other than get on my nerves. It just seems to me that some asshole tellin' the internet what it is that he thinks is just a jerk lookin' for attention. I ain't that.

I don't really wanna be doin' this. My girlfriend recommended it. She likes listenin' to me rant 'bout things or talk in general. (So, already you know she's a bit odd, right? She is, but she's a great woman anyway.) I figure I can get a lil work in on my writing and maybe, just maybe, get a few people together that might actually pay money to read what i write.

You see, in case you don't know this already, I'm a writer. I write poetry, short stories, I even have a book I'm tryin' to get published. I'm a huge comic book geek and it's really my dream to publish my own comic books. I do a little drawing as well but I'm a bit too lazy to do that full time. I do my writing as often as I can but I also have a regular blue collar job. (I'm workin' right now actually but it's a bit slow here so I'm writing in between phone calls and paperwork. I'm on hour 3 of writing this by the way.)

I work with my family's plumbing company. My dad has had this business for more than twenty years now. He's been doin' plumbing for the last thirty years. He is possibly the single greatest influence in my life. I have learned more from the man with a sixth grade education than anyone else. He's been around for more than half a century but still leads a vigorous life. It's been said that he and I are essentially the same person.

I've been called a grumpy old man, a dork, a cowboy, a twelve-year-old boy, a flirt, a rockstar and a couple of four letter words. I am all of these things at one time or another. I think we all are really. People are a bit too complex to be cornered into one label and since I don't wanna limit myself to what I'm gonna be in this blog, I think it's a bit too early to say what it is that I'm gonna be givin' you. I'll do my best to make sure that what you do get is me. 100% me. And the theory on that is that if you like me you'll like the blog. So here's to hopin'. (This is the part where I'd offer you a beer in a frosty mug and we'd say "cheers", clang our glasses together and take a drink. And Willie Nelson playin' in the background as we sit at the bar.)