Ok, ok.
I haven't even really started blogging and I've already overused the potentially controversial war metaphors. I'll try to calm down going forward.
For those that know me, they know that my online presence is long overdue. For those that don't, I'll try and justify the fact that my online presence now exists. Either way, it'll be up to you to judge whether or not my stories and thoughts belong on the internet, or I'm just taking up valuable server space from http://www.mervalbertfetish.com/*.
In a brief summary. I'm a single white male, unangried and just a few months shy of thirtyhood. I'm fairly undistinguished both in personal achievements and in my career, but I've collected a fair amount of family and friends, sometimes those that blur the distinction, in my previous home of Seattle and my new home in Spokane. For those that really, really have no idea what website they are on, I'll direct you to Google Maps* for a brief geography lesson. I was born in raised in the central district of Seattle, the big city. Although really by any real cities standard Seattle is strictly small potatoes. I went to school in the pleasant little hippie town of Bellingham and have since moved to Spokane, due to unfortunate circumstances beyond my control. Actually, they were slightly in my control. Ok, very in my control. Fine, I was shit-canned by a certain large coffee Empire that rhymes with Lardsucks. Twist my arm, will ya.
But life is not about dwelling in the deepest despairs over a slight shit-canning. Life is about applying for unemployment, and then deciding on a whim to move to a new city and a new life and then possibly apply for unemployment there. And that's the spirit of optimism and hope that I can only pray translates into my newly formed blog, which otherwise may end up being a minefield of sarcasm and pessimissm.
My goal is to have a thought or a focus for each entry and to tell an interesting story or two on the way. You'll have to bear with me about all the details as I recall them, but if you are still reading then I figure I have a captive audience willing to absorb every word I type be it true or not. Dear reader, once you figure out how to use Windows Vista* and successfully navigate away from my page without crashing your entire house, including your toaster oven, then I suppose I am screwed. But until then...
*TWIS is not affiliated with mervalbertfetish.com in any way, and besides I'm pretty sure it's not even a real website anyway. But if it is and for whatever reason you click it, I hope you get lots of viruses that melt your screen, you sick bastard.
*TWIS is affiliated with the proud upstanding organization that is Google, and is grateful that our benevolent overlords have reclaimed the internet from the foul and dastardly AOL.
*TWIS not compatible with Vista. Vista smash.
