I Have Succumbed
Mood:  caffeinated
Now Playing: Lucretia (My Reflection) - Sisters of Mercy
Today is the day. I have now become one with the masses and created a blog. What the hell is this thing, anyway? Is it an online journal? What's the attraction to blogging and why does every moron on the planet feel they must have their own blog? Perhaps I will answer my own questions as I become more adept at this.

That said, I really have nothing interesting to write about today. I was just sitting here with my coffee and cigarettes, listening to music and being really, really bored. Years and years ago I kept a journal, but I was consistently frustrated because my brain works faster than my hand when it coming to actually writing. In a perfect world, I could type everything! Maybe this will become a journal of sorts, who knows?

I suppose that I should provide a little bit of personal background, so we can all get to know one another better. It's probably pretty obvious that I like to write, but as far as hobbies go I am an avid reader, coffee drinker, cigarette smoker, (a nasty habit, yes, I know,) news watcher, unapologetic fan of seventies and eighties punk, goth and new wave, and a music junkie in general. Oh, and I still play Vampire: The Masquerade (a live action role-playing game, for those of you not in the know,) several years after it ceased to be cool to do so. My website, (which probably let you here) isn't the first website I've built, in fact I've built a torn down quite a few over the years. At 19 I decided late one night to teach myself HTML, and the rest is history. The first site I built was devoted to the care of giant green iguanas and leopard geckos, which seemed like a good idea since I had both in my house at the time. (Ziggy Stardust, the gecko, lived a long, happy life and Iggy, the iguana, grew to an enormous size and now resides with a local herpetologist.) From there I built a website for the industrial band Bile, and was fortunate enough to be able to correspond with their guitar player, Dave, and singer, Krztoff, during the construction of the site. They were swell guys, unfailingly polite and kind, and were a big help. (I actually kind of miss that site, it looked cool.) Feeling that I'd honed my skills if not to a fine point then at least to a blunt edge, I embarked on building the site I currently maintain. Needless to say, it ate my soul, and has continued to do so in the five years hence. Along the way I built a site for a friend's business and a site for a friend's now-defunct band. I felt clueless at first, but it was a lot of fun to be able to depart from serial killers and criminology for a bit. However, my site The Criminal Mind is my baby, and I hope to continue it far into the future. Like a child, it's fun and fascinating to watch it grow.