I don't really know what I'm doing but that's not stopping me.

I’m a dilettante. There are some things I do well enough to do professionally and some things I just fake. There are avocations I am devoted to and others I dabble in. I’m loyal to some areas of interest where I’ve never achieved the level of immersion required to provide me with any depth of knowledge or expertise. I have other interests where I become so focused that I mount steep learning curves rapidly. In other words I’m probably very similar in many respects to you…and utterly different in as many others.

I’m a photographer and a good one. I’m a writer but less confident about that, though some people have been more complimentary about that work than my photography. I’m a web geek with waning geekiness due to my failure to continually advance my skill set. In all these things I am self-taught. The lack of formal training imposes a forced humility that I would sometimes like to shake off and other times am grateful for.

I’m insecure and arrogant. I’m a narcissist and an altruist (though more in intention than in deed which I need to work on). I care about humanity more than I like people. Sturgeon's law states that 90% of everything is crud. Not only do I think he was being generous, I, without pride confess, that I extend his concept to people as well as places, things, ideas, etc.

I have noticed that any list of my interests is a) always in hindsight both aggrandizing and incomplete and b) always just a snapshot of my distractions at a particular point in time. That said, I’ll do an inventory since these are some of the things I may be blogging about.

In no particular order:

Growing tomatoes, the Grateful Dead, bicycling and following international cycling as a fan, the Chicago Cubs, Harley-Davidson motorcycles, scuba diving, skiing, kite flying, bird watching, University of Nebraska Cornhusker football, reading, writing, photography, graphic design, web design, cooking, low-carb dieting, left-leaning politics, the venal right, cars, money, gadgets, the Internet, smoking ribs and other meats, cats, suburban wildlife, classic cinema, music…and not the least, finding employment.

I hope I have something to say or a perspective worth sharing from time to time. I may just be blogging for the sake of lexographical calisthenics. I can live with that.