Explanation

A story:

Also a good introduction to my blog and a telling story about who I was as a child, and for the most part still am. Very revealing. Very bloggy.

Ok, no more sentence fragments. At least, not conscious ones (I can't stop!)

Our first computer was a Commodore 64. It had a program called Print Shop with some basic, very pixellated clip art. The clip art was organized into categories. Those that didn't fit into a category was called, simply, "Misc."

At some point there was a show and tell at my elementary school. Everyone was told to bring a collection and each collection would be displayed on our desks. In what should be a surprise to no one who knows me, I had no idea and showed up oblivious. When I realized that I was the only student without a collection, I pulled everything from my desk, random toys, Los Angeles Raiders pencils, drawings I'd done, maybe a winter glove, and piled it on top. I wrote "Misc." on a piece of paper and taped it to the front of the desk.

My teacher (I think this was 3rd grade, so it could have been one of many, as my real teacher was fighting cancer and I went through a variety of substitutes that year) told me to put it all away and I visited fellow students' collections, wishing, as I watched them pass by the blank wood of my own spot, that I'd brought all my Ninja Turtles stuff.

This blog, then, will be that desk full of Misc. It will have no main theme. Sometimes it will be about me, sometimes it will be an idea I had, sometimes it will be fake news about something esoteric that only I and a handful of other people would know anything about. I might republish things I've posted elsewhere.

If someone reads it besides my wife, I will be happily surprised (if she even reads it, that is.)