This is my first blog so I am still trying to navigate the site and see about making categories and stuff but I think this will be a web log for the most part. i will post stuff in succession until I can figure out how to better use this blog.
I want to be able to link this blog to a couple of blogs that I enjoy reading so stay tuned for this to go somewhere or sit idel like some of my early attempts at a blog. i am liking this site though. I see that like a certain social networking site it has a link that I can put up in my bookmarks bar so I hope to share things that I find in my internet wanderings. I usually spend most of my time in a gaming site though.
For the most part, the readers here will be the readers I am used to seeing but it would be nice to have aplace of my own to visit just as much. I can already see that I can set up the categories so this first one will be under the category of The Junk Drawer.
Do you have a Junk Drawer? Is that one of the things that you will always find in a home? The catch all be all of scissors, notebooks, keys, and all of the other things that tend to lay around the house, junk. =) For the most part, the junk drawer is in the kitchen.
I guess as a category heading, that works pretty good because there are times when I am not able to categorize what I am blogging about until I have blogged it so we’ll see how things go. I do have a couple of other categories in mind that for me have blended into each other such as Gaming and Parenting. With a new baby on the way in September 2008, I think I will have somet hings to blog about. =)
So my first one is in the books as they say but shouldn’t that be changed now? I mean ‘in the books’ usually meant that it was published and that took some time but now we can be published with the push of a submit button so I guess I can safely say that my first blog is in the computers now. Welcome. =)

LOL, sweet.
Welcome to WP, Little Brother.
By: NIAC on July 5, 2008
at 4:12 am
Thanks mike. I am still getting used to navigating the site. i saw your comment and went to the site to view it and it wasn’t there. LOL Luckily I have the dashboard open in another tab and saw i had to approve your comment. =D
Oh the power, the unlimited pow-wah. =)
By: astardly on July 5, 2008
at 4:35 am
Awesome!
It’s good to see you here.
=D
By: Rain on July 5, 2008
at 9:33 pm
Thank you Rain. =)
By: astardly on July 6, 2008
at 5:31 am
Stop abusing your power!
I love that pic, btw.
oh and I love other things too but this is not the place to delve into…uhm, never mind.By: NIAC on July 6, 2008
at 10:18 am
I can’t stop, it feels so gooooood!! LOL
Hey Mike, if you haven’t seen it already, you have to watch this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0456554/
Oh and I will leave that edit up until you see it and them I will restore the original comment as you posted it before I humorously edited it for you.
Thanks for the pic comment. That is a random shot taken on a boat ride.
By: astardly on July 6, 2008
at 4:52 pm
LOL, you ‘Astard!
Hell yes I have seen that movie…LMAO!
That pic, seriously, wish I was there.
By: NIAC on July 6, 2008
at 6:20 pm
You know what? Unless you ask me to remove my edit, I think I will leave that up there because it is pretty funny. =) I hope those that read blogs, well we all know that blog readers read everything so I hope everyone knows that I put those words into Mike’s mouth.
My offer to come and visit and not have to pay for a hotel while you are here still stands. That pic was cropped and I like how it turned out. I may actually add a page just so I can post more pictures. Or not. =)
By: astardly on July 6, 2008
at 10:57 pm
LOL, no harm done. Anyone who doesn’t know that – well, it won’t matter. Until your wife – no – nevermind. She already knows what you’re like, LOL.
I am going to take you up on that offer, but I can’t do it this year, and you are likely gonna be busy after that. We can give it some time.
The picture on my blog’s banner is from the blizzard we had a few years ago. It is at about 0500h, EST, on a Friday in December. It was the first time in over 30 years that even the buses were shut down. I am standing in the middle of the roadway, hip deep in snow, looking toward the intersection of the townhouse complex.
By: NIAC on July 7, 2008
at 4:48 am
Yes she knows and that is why she married me. I hope. LOL That is good to hear you will come fishing some day. Being the grandfather father and uncle , heck being Time itself, I know you will make it. =)
I actually think I will be looking to take my fishing rod out for some fishing with my son this summer. The bait that I had curing should be done by now and the fish are here since I did see one jumping on my way home today.
I will check out that picture again. I almost went with a similar picture since I liked how it cropped for the banner but went with this one instead.
By: astardly on July 7, 2008
at 7:32 pm