So why a blog?

Being a computing lecturer, I obviously have to keep on the cutting edge of all new developments, especially on the Internet......ahem.

Nah, just fancied doing one! Myspace is fun to look around but for kids / single people and I've been reading this one for about a year now, someone i vaguely know from Uni, who seems to be living a very exciting life. "But my life is far too dull" I thought, plus general lazyness meant i never started anything. I'm nicking Jonny's book idea though...

Since we found out Susan was pregnant, (August 11th, fact fans, just a few days before we were due to go to the hedonistic paradise of Ibiza! I was sanding down a cupboard door when she came downstairs with the positive test result!), i've again kept meaning to get around to it, prmoising it in e-mails etc but there was always something more important. Plus, probably the worry in the back of mind - still there :( - about what if something went wrong with the pregnancy?

Well, the new year spured me on, plus a work laptop making it much easier to sit in front of the TV and write, so finally time to start.

I don't honestly know how it will end up - will it just be lots of silly pictures and links? Will I find the time to write regularly? Will it be interesting to anyone apart from us? Will it become too personal? I don't know, I guess we'll find out, but i think it's something i'll enjoy doing, it'll be a good record of events and it keeps me off the streets!

Plus in a way, I think it's a nice way of keeping in touch - in a one-sided kinda way. Blogger puts a 'comments' link at the end of each post (see, i'm starting to use all the correct blogging terms) so please feel free to comment! And let me know what you're up to.

More later - on Friday or at the weekend probably (depending if i get our stupidly intermittent home connection sorted out...oh yeah, and my marking...). Going on a college trip tomorrow - to a video games exhibition!

Woohoo!!!

T

PS - For the sooo out of touch, a blog is a web-log. An online diary basically.