It Begins (Maybe)

Test post, largely, and declaration of mediocrity. 

    I asked myself this morning, why should I start a blog no one will read?  Second, why should I start a blog when I don’t typically read blogs?  Clearly they're not something I spent much thought on, nor something I intend to put much work into to make more than somewhere I type something dreamy ab

out what’s happening outside my window.  Thirdly, what if I post something stupid and then come back years later and realize it has been out on the waves of cyber space like an anthropomorphic penguin hanging six off an intergalactic surfboard?

    The answer to the first question is probably that I don’t really care if no one reads it.  I am aware it is an echo chamber, and like many budding egotists, I like the sound of my own voice, so the echo will be rather pleasant.  On top of this, it gives me an excuse to unburden my mind and engage in one of my most strangely cathartic hobbies, typing, all without stuffing the remains away in a forgotten drawer never to be read.  I don’t hold truck with waste.

    To the second, well, I don’t have to read blogs to make one.  It’s the internet.  At the least I know how to capitalize and everything.  I’m not pretending to be professional.  Perhaps someday I will have time to sit down a read a good blog that isn’t coming between me and the recipe I came for, and I might learn something.

    And to the last, I suppose I could just try not to post something stupid, and maybe get my husband to tell me if anything is idiotic before I post.  There is one great flaw of the internet world--little editing before you vomit all over the web.

    Another problem I encountered was that Blogger looked easiest to use, and I always hated that orange theme.  Then, I must apologize for using a platform owned by Google, which is presently stalking my readers for all their information and probably by now knows whether you had oatmeal or bagels for breakfast.  Sorry.  I am not a website developer.

    And yet, I can just ignore it when I don't feel like paying attention to it.  And maybe it will give me a chance to make fun of food bloggers a couple times.

    And maybe it will be close to a journal that has spell check.