This blog

So a while back I started writing status e-mails to my work. As with every e-mail I write, they started getting longer and longer and longer. They soon became somewhat therapeutic for me. I wanted everyone at work to know what was going on, but it became more important for me to just get some of the things that had happened out of me so I could digest it better. Over time, the e-mails got more and more personal and I probably was sharing things I wouldn't have otherwise and things Michelle would just assume I didn't tell others. It just kind of took a life of its own.

I mentioned something I had wrote in an e-mail once to a family member and they asked if they could be included. Then others asked, and others asked, and some were sending it to their friends and others were wondering why they weren't getting the updates as well. I didn't mean to exclude anybody. They were work e-mails so it seemed kind of weird to just send them to everyone, but I started doing that. 

Finally, I decided I wanted to do something different with them and really try to get down everything that had happened so that Michelle and myself and Taylor could look back at this fantastic voyage in the future. So I created this blog. A lot of this stuff was just e-mails I wrote over time to work. I've dumped them in here. I'm going back over things and filling in details, and I've also added some things that were more personal in nature and not work related (a couple bad poems for example). Anyway, for what's its worth, enjoy...