Introduction

Well let's see how this goes, shall we?

I've started blogs a few times in the past - most recently on Myspace - but I eventually grow a life and don't have time to bother with it anymore. Or I go long stretches with nothing much of import to say and I start to bore even myself.

The last several days, however, I've been in Hong Kong and I've had tons of stuff I wanted to tell people. Unfortunately, my main source of communication with the outside world - Facebook - just doesn't give me the space I need to blather on and on. I come up with what I think of as terribly witty status updates and the damn thing tells me I've used too many characters! Then I have to go back and try to figure out which nuggets of hilarity aren't quite as worthy of passing along as others. It's a painful process.

Thus, the Blog.

A little about me. I grew up dirt poor in the woods in Mississippi with a voracious wanderlust gnawing at my insides. I've since sated it a bit with a couple trips around the world, but I still suffer from a gluttonous appetite travel and exploration. I love to drink (mostly rum, but if it has alcohol in it I'll give it a try), I love to dance (my friends say I'm never happier than when I'm Zombie Stompin' around a roomy dance floor somewhere), I use foul language and tell filthy jokes (this blog will not be g-rated by any stretch, though I don't usually stray into XXX territory publicly), I've spent time in the Marines, I hold mostly libertarian political views and one of my biggest pet peeves is political correctness, I'm not personally religious though I'm not entirely anti-religion, I have been naked in awkward places, I try very hard to be a good friend but that is counterbalanced by how deeply self-centered I am.

Thus, the Blog.

There's a lot more I could say about myself (did I mention I was self-centered?) but we'll get into that stuff as we go.

Shall we?