I used to have an About page, in fact there have probably been several over the years this blog has existed in one form or another, but I think it’s time for an updated one. This blog sprang up in April 2005, back when I was a very different person. Since those early days, many things have changed. I’ve grown up a little bit, settled down almost, and I’m a Dad. That kinda worries me sometimes that I am responsible, completely, for another human being. I used to say that I would never have kids, I think it’s mainly because I have struggled to look after myself; how would I cope looking after someone else?
I guess that if there was one defining time in my life, it is 2006/7. This is when I started my tumultuous relationship with Jenny, she moved in, she got pregnant, we had Tom. Man, that was four years ago and time has passed in a blur. Come to think of it, the last decade had passed me by in a blink of an eye. Where does time go? One thing that I like about this blog is that it gives me the opportunity to record what I have done, what I am feeling and thinking. It’s cool to sometimes look back at times long gone and remember. Sometimes it’s bad stuff. Other times good. All the time it’s a lesson. A chance to learn from what happened previously. That was, and remains, the main purpose of this blog. It’s for me before it is for anyone else. Sure I like to think that people are reading my ramblings, but even if no-one does, that doesn’t matter. I will read it. That is what counts.
And that is what this blog is about. It’s about me. A 34 year old, jaded, disillusioned ordinary-man from a small town in a country that is realising and repositioning it’s place in the world. It’s about trying to do something good with the life I’ve been given. About recording facts, events, thoughts and feelings (amongst other things). It will be as random as life is. That’s what this is about.