welcome to my world...i mean, my blog At first, this blog was going to be simply a place for me to put my LASIK testimonial. I thought I could help out the one or two people who did as much "at work" internet searching as I did when they noticed weird things happening to their eyesight after being zapped with lasers. I mean, there just aren't too many searches that come up under keywords "hot air balloon lasik bug-eye-man."

Then I decided maybe I'd use it to keep up with friends and family. What better way to avoid phone calls than the good 'ol non-personal world wide web??? But then I had an epiphany. I can write stuff even if I have absolutely nothing to say! And when I have nothing to say, who better to victimize with witty banter than friends and family? So rather then posting a "look how big Carter is getting" post every month or so, this is going to be an outlet for the various things that go through my mind that might not go through other people's minds. Until they read it here. Then it will go into their minds, hang out for a few minutes in short term memory, and go away, probably forever. Oh well, at least I was there for a few minutes...

The epiphany was mostly inspired by the Cynical Tyrant, who has one of the funniest blogs out there. Go check it out if you want to risk laughing out loud at work and having to pretend you're really just laughing at that paper-clip guy that helps you when you press F1 in Microsoft Excel.
  ¶ monger187 wrote this on 10/01/2004