I started this blog because I wanted to keep up with my amazing wife, who, at the time, was keeping an awesome blog, showing off her mad writing skills, and sharing with the world her adventures through life, that often included 5 children and her doting husband (me). I figured that I too could bask in the glory that is "Blog writing" and regale thousands, if not millions, of avid followers with my tales of greatness and sometimes tales of immense woe.
Unfortunately, I have not been a faithful blogger. Having started this blog in January of 2012, I have, as of today, March 26, 2020, made an incredibly lame 8 entries, with two of those being re-posts from entries I did in Melissa's Blog.
As for the millions of adoring followers, well, in 8 entries, I have garnered 3 responses. One from my mother commenting on the nice pictures I posted (I hadn't posted any), one from my wife, and one from somebody I don't know and have no idea how they came across my blog. All in all, my plans to dominate the world via blogging has been bitter failure.
Because I am who I am and refuse to cower down before failure, I instead stand before you, in failure. Not to be deterred, I have once again taken up the challenge to inform the masses, bedazzle the minds and win the hearts of all those who read my blog, which at this moment is..., well, just me, so you can consider myself properly bedazzled.
Should someone other than me stumble across this blog, whether on purpose, through mere fate, destiny, accident, or because it is being used to torture you beyond what is allowed by the Geneva Convention or the Patriot Act, I feel inclined to explain why I have started writing again. There is a long reason and a short reason and because I am wordy and make things overly complicated, I will explain both...
The LONG reason.....
Things change, the world changes and we change. In fact, the only constant in life is that there is no constant. Currently I am in Northern Virginia, sitting in a hotel room while the Corona Virus, also known as COVID19 wreaks havoc across the world. The idea that the world, as a whole, might go the way of the dinosaurs, while not necessarily a scary thought, is one that makes me want to at least record my small bit of life. I don't plan to get deep into feelings but I do like the idea of my children surviving the apocalypse and having something to read that gives them some insight to my thoughts on things. Regardless of Corona, my life is constantly changing and in fact, I am preparing myself for another big change. I will be leaving Tucson in July (assuming the world is not destroyed and has recovered from this freaking virus) to head to almost a year of training and then heading to Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Melissa and the kids are staying in Sahuarita while I am in training and will possibly join me (Melissa and the youngest two) after my first year at the new assignment. I will certainly stay in close contact with them and make as many trips home as I can to spend time with them but I also want to document as much of the interesting aspects of these changes as I can. I am not saying I will blog every day but I want to at least put up things that invoke excitement or share sadness, or well, I guess, whatever I deem worthy of writing about.....
The SHORT reason.....
My wonderful wife, during a discussion where I mention I would like to blog about my trip to DC in July and maybe use my blog a bit more, laughed at me and said, "Right, just like you were going to blog every day in Afghanistan". She expressed doubt in me so now I have to prove her wrong.... Hey, it is more productive then when someone told me, "You will never run a marathon" and I ran 4 of them just to prove a point. At least me blogging shouldn't cause two surgeries..... At least, I really hope not.
Moving onward.....
