Hello and Welcome to my site. 

This site was actually created a number of years ago without a lot of thought as to what it was going to be about other than satisfying my own curiosity about web design. While it has served various purposes over the years,  I haven’t really done a whole lot with it since its creation.

Recently however I have become more and more active in different areas of the Internet such as interactive sites like Yedda, LiveJournal and some of the other internet forums and message boards.  I have redesigned this site to accommodate, represent and to adapt to my personal preferences along with that evolutionary process.

I think the biggest reason for my choice in using a personally designed web site in this manner is because I choose to have more control over specific aspects of the various sites that I currently use on the internet. Areas of particular concern are the "personal information" sections of the interactive and non-social sites.  I find that most of them have limitations in place that are far too restrictive when it comes to self-expression.  I resent the assumption that people are all neatly designed to fit into specific holes in a given board, thus I refuse to simply answer yes or no questions, pick from multiple choice questions or fill in the blanks on questions I don't feel like answering much less agree with any of the provided choices.

While this is essentially my personal site, there aren’t any family pictures or stories about family vacations.  Rather than being a place where I post information about my personal life, it’s more of a place where I post an extension of myself, such as beliefs and opinions.  While online friendships do happen and I am not adverse to them, my participation in certain interactive sites isn’t really intended for the purpose of becoming part of a personal “socializing” network so to speak.  The primary goal of this particular site is in reality multi-purpose, which is addressed in each of the sub pages.  It's not here for the purpose of exposing the whole of my personal life, beyond what is in reality public information anyway. 

In the interest of internet socialization, I have MySpace which I use for my younger nieces and nephews and Facebook for my adult friends for that purpose.  The greater majority of those listed on both of those sites are real people that I personally know and most of them I am related to by blood or marriage.  Those that do not fall into the "I personally know" category are quite obvious because they are clearly listed as groups or organizations I support or they are singers, songwriters and bands that I follow as a "fan" because I enjoy listening to them while I’m working online.

While some may or may not agree, everything that anyone really needs to know about me is contained somewhere within this site.  I have a link posted on both my profile with Yedda and with Live Journal. 

Regardless, thanks for dropping by!