First

Every blogger has a first blog. This is mine. There’s nothing special about it other than the fact that it’s mine. I am not a celebrity and don’t anticipate attracting much viewership. Who knows if my family will even find this (unless I send it to them and insist the offer supportive comments). Why blog at all? I guess I am a bit bored and searching for my next ‘thing’ to get excited about. After 38 years of work in the IT industry (IBM, Xerox, CSC, small companies, companies that got sold), I embarked on an ‘encore career’ (doesn’t that sound gentler than ‘retired’?). I spend most of my time on non-profit activities, which I can bore you with soon, and I also spend time with myself, and my family. Now I am trying to determine if that’s enough for me. Maybe it is – maybe I deserve this time and freedom. I read, I hike, I kayak up in Maine, I spend time with my wife and kids – more time than ever before. Maybe that’s enough. Yet there’s still a slight nag that it’s not. I rationalize a bit – this is 2020 where the world is all fucked up, so why create any ambition to do more until the smoke clears a bit? That has worked for me so far.