a year in the life

Today marks the one year anniversary for the humble Blog of Doom. Here's the first post. Ah, such optimism.

Anyway, I had a couple of weeks off from work around this time last year. The lovely and quite talented Mrs. Camino had a short-lived blog detailing the planning and execution of our trip to England, Wales, and Scotland (we ended up saving money and going to Maryland and Virginia instead. You can read the four part series here, here, here, and here), and I figured that I could start a blog of my own to post some of the essays I'd written for my own amusement, continue some of the dilusional rambling that I would sometimes send to friends in emails, and occasionally attempt to channel the spirits of favorite authors.

I figured that I would soon lose interest and just delete everything after a few weeks. I tend to do that. However, a few very talented fellow bloggers and an assortment of friends and random passers-by started showing up on a fairly regular basis to read and sometimes comment on something I'd written. So it was that I kept writing.

Anyway, thanks for reading.