Blogging? This should be interesting…

I’ve heard about blogging. I’ve read about blogging. I’ve even read blog or two. But I’ve never blogged- until now. I came across WordPress through another fascinating sublet of this amazing thing we call the Internet, Facebook. More specifically, through my cousin, Charles Waters Bryan, III. (Yes that’s his real name.) You can find his blog here. 

I don’t know if anyone will read this. Do I care? I don’t know that either. While I was considering this venture, I put it out there for my peeps on Facebook, saying “Nick is thinking about starting a blog. What’ya think?”. I received two responses to the question.

“Well considering I just started one and no one reads it, it’s a lost art that no one truly appreciates!! but if you start one you can be a brooding writer and I will support you in that endeavor because it’s working so far for me! ” -Sarah S.

“I think its a good way for the verbal processing types to exersize a bit of internal processing and provides a little bit of accountability(depends on who you tell)…I say go for it and invite a good friend to keep up with you(or a few…to share the load), and make sure they’re the same sort of people…(like personalties…:)” -Becky S.

And with that, there’s this. I have to say now that my interest in blogging heightened after I read a book that came into being due to a blog. If you’ve heard of Waiter Rant, I needn’t say more. If you haven’t, here’s the Cliffs-notes: A waiter starts blogging about his life in the restaurant industry. Its a cynical (as self-described by the author) look at an existence sustained by upper-end service at a Manhattan-ish delicatessen. Funny, and nearly heart wrenching at times, The Waiter turned blog success into printed press and the rest is in fact history. If that doesn’t quench your thirst for descriptive quaffs, imbibe more here.

Over the next ___________________ (fill in the blank) I haven’t a clue what my content will be. My friends say I’m ADD. My wife agrees. People who don’t know me well enough to make the accusation of ADD-ness to my face say I’m random. I’m not random, you just can’t think as fast as me.

Amie and I are expecting- a baby. That is to say, we will be parents-for-real in April ’09. Yes, my mom is elated. No, we don’t know the sex. No, we won’t find out. Yes, that means its a surprise. No, we won’t name our child after you. Point: I will probably write about that some.

You’ll notice my categories, or you can’t see them at all because I’m still learning this thing as I type here. “Does this taste funny to you?” references an old joke:

Two cannibals are eating a clown.

One stops, looks at the other and asks, “Does this taste funny to you?”

The key word for that category is funny. As for the others: “The Pursuit” is a vast part of my life. “Beh-bay” is my ekename (there are dictionaries all over the Internet, just go look it up!) for our unborn child. And if I have to explain the other category, you should stop reading the blog now- I use words that a lot of people don’t know exist. (And no, I don’t like Scrabble.)

Expect entries that may be up for a bit and then taken down, simply because writing for me is a release of sorts, and because I am, at times, too honest.

So there it is. The first entry. I think I’ll like this…