Why Would I Blog Such a Thing?

Hello. Day III of the HEAT WAVE. It's also my third day of sitting here in the basement. I refuse to go up. I have a system worked out where my girlfriend is bringing me food and water from the refridgerator upstairs and I stay here, away from the heat. Nice little system, yes? Our basement isn't actually air conditioned like I said the other day. I just keep telling myself it is in the hopes that the thought will work as some kind of placebo, maybe even good enough for a degree or two of imaginary variance in temperature. My fingers are crossed. Don't worry about her, she is Native American and seems to cope with the overbearing heat with a bit more grace than I. That isn't to say that, because of her ethnicity, she is somehow better equipped to deal with the heat, but only that I am less equipped and I struggle to justify my lack of endurance.

I wanted to take a moment today and explain my purpose in wanting to start a blog. Those of you who have taken the time to read the entries from the last two days no doubt perceive this blog to be about nothing more than some over-heated chump sitting in his basement rambling on about nothing. If that is the case, then I have succeeded in my quest. I have no particular direction to take, I only want a place to share my thoughts with whoever is even slightly interested. So you, the slightly interested reader, should hang around and see what comes of this. I hope to eventually morf this into a place where I describe the people and places I have come across over my 38 years and share stories about them. I wanted my first couple of entries to provide a window into the personality of the writer (me). I think it's only fair that you know who you are dealing with before you decide to venture further into my strange little world. And it IS strange, believe you me; perhaps no more odd than your own, but it is all I know and I want to write it down before my memories are lost to the dank, inner spaces of my sometimes fickle mind.
Stay tuned.