Managed World

Okay, I promise I won't start many posts out with lyrics from Journey, but I couldn't help myself. Once again, I have shown everyone how I have absolutely no self control at all (although I'm sure all you have to do to see that is look at my picture in the upper left of the website (hey, I can insult myself, I have every right too :))). All I have to say is that I'm glad I don't live near a Krispy Kreme or I would become a large, waddling Krispy Kreme on legs, methinks. But alas, I digress.

I just turned off the lights at the old blog. It's kind of a sad moment for me. While I loved it over at GeeksWithBlogs, it definitely had its moments, both good and bad (as I'm sure this new home will have as well). I must have become quite attached to my blog because I have that same feeling I had when I left RMLS to start working for Fios, Inc. It's definitely a mixing pot filled with mixed emotions. A little voodoo soup for the blogging soul, if you will.

While I would like to say that I'm going to turn around and post nothing about thought-provoking, intellectual posts, I know that is simply not true. I will probably be just as perverted as before, if not more. I will be just as immature as before, if not more. And I will be just as loud as before, if not more (okay, I know that last one doesn't really make sense since the term "loud" is usually associated with hearing, not reading).

What does this mean for any of you? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! I will do nothing for you. I'm here for me. "Blasphemy!" you say? Well, screw off then (just kidding, I love you all (I don't want you to screw off (really!!!))). What I mean to say is that I've thought a lot about blogging recently and, well, up until now, I've been way too worried about what people would think about what I'm posting. I was always worried about contributing valuable "technical" content. And then a thought struck me in my little wet noodle (not that noodle, I mean my head (other head!!!!)): all the blogs that I absolutely love reading, I absolutely love reading because you get to see the person behind the blog. Prime example: Rory Blyth. Rory is one of my favorite bloggers in my aggregator all because Rory is Rory because Rory wants to be Rory. Well, one thing is for sure now: Jason wants to be Jason, nothing more, nothing less.

I need to learn to embrace what and who I am. I don't think I'm a guy who is going to be contributing golden thought-nuggets to the society jeweler every week. I'm just a quirky guy is who tries his best to lighten up people's days by making them laugh (and tend to pole vault across the line of what "normal" people consider "socially acceptable"). So, that's who I'm going to be from now on. I'm just going to be myself. No worrying about whether I'm detracting from the overall site or not because the site is about ME, and nothing but ME (okay, that won't certainly always be the case). Of course, people like Rory have been telling me these kinds of things for a while, but it took me getting hit over the head with an apple (literally (as in, literally = not really)) in order to realize this.

So, I can't promise that I will post that often. I can't promise that my posts will actually have any "content". What I can promise is that I'm going to be myself and I hope that you find that refreshing and join me on my long journey.

Now if you'll excuse me, it's quite late (or quite early depending on how you look at it) and I need to get up in a few hours in order to work. I'm frankly surprised my eyes stayed open long enough to make this post. Goodnight!

Ciao!