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Nearing 40 years of existence. Looking back I've always had this annoying habit of archiving my life in written form. Events, thoughts, feelings, opinions. Short form, long form, a word, a sentence, a story, an epic, the complete and unfinished tales with extra footnotes. Most of it will never see the light of the Internets, safely ensconced in some private section of a blog or in some password protected folder in my laptop (I've got some scathing reviews of breakfast cereals in there). Suffice to say I've always been somewhat of a fervent archivist. There was no method to this madness -- it was mostly a verbal diarrhoea. Empty the brain and fill the notepad (or vim, when I feel particularly masochistic). Sometimes it helped organize my thoughts, other times it was pure catharsis.
Due to the highly therapeutic nature of this exercise I have no choice but to continue to do it well into the forseeable future. But this time around I decided to add a little zing to the proceedings. I've always loved the idea of having a public archive of my ramblings. One in which I don't share intimate details of my life, but just enough to have it serve as a conduit to the outside world. Just a tiny part of my being open to the www. This is an attempt to bring that idea to life.
And... so it begins.