I don’t know what came over me, but I decided to start a blog!

Were people beating my door down for my opinion on everything?

No.

Were people clamoring for a peak inside my life and mind?

Not a chance.

Am I having narcissistic tendencies with the need to share every thought I’ve ever had.

Gosh I hope not, but we’re probably getting closer!

In all honesty, I don’t know where this will go. I’ve never been much of a writer or journaler. However with the recent involvement getting the US-RSE Association going, I find myself thinking, reflecting, and wanted to share my thoughts. So this is most likely going to be a professional blog. Not that I don’t have opinions on things outside of work. Here are a couple that always get me going:

• Why do weather forecasters insist on reporting relative humidity? If only there was a logical, useful measure of humidity we could all understand! Oh wait, there is, it’s the dew point! None of this “feels like” garbage. Someone picked a completely arbitrary dew point as the norm and based everything off of that. In the northeast it’s never that dry, so it’s never an accurate “feels like.”

• Why do people always insist on putting the utensils and napkins at the front of a buffet line? I don’t know what I’m getting so I don’t know what I’ll need. Invariably I’ll end up needing a knife, not have one, and have to apologize as I try to reach in and grab one. Not to mention, now I have to carry the utensils the whole way through the buffet line or put them in my pocket?

See what I mean? No one wants to hear my random rantings and ravings. I could literally write a book on first-world problems and complaints. Hey, maybe you want to hear this things…if you do let me know. Poke me on twitter and maybe from time to time I’ll put something in. More likely, if I venture off reservation it’ll be to drop a review about a good book I recently listened to on audible (I’m an avid audiobook listener).

The smart money is on my sticking with this for a few weeks (months?) and then it sitting stale, never getting updated until eventually I pull the plug, embarrassed and pretending it never happened.