This again?

    Been a while since I kept a blog. I might have to try this again. On the other hand, I'm not sure I really have much to write about. But I guess we'll see. I'll tell you what started all this. 

    For a while before a couple weeks ago, I'd been thinking that I should find the blog I wrote while in Japan and read it. Took me a while to get to it, but when I realized that 2025 marks 20 years since I left Japan, I finally dug it out of the closet (mom and dad had printed the entire thing and put it in a binder) and set to reading. I'm still reading it, in fact. But that got me to wondering if it was still online somewhere, so I did a little searching of the internet and my memory banks, and lo and behold, it was still online. As these things go, one thing led to another and I also found the blog I wrote while in Korea and a very short running blog, too, that I had started but had never published (didn't write more than about 5-6 posts anyway). 

    Looking back through all of the above, of course, many of the memories came back to me. Some great times, some difficult times, and everything in between. Lots of thoughts and emotions, I guess. But what really gets me, is that I stopped writing in Korea, about one year before my first child was born. Man, I wish I hadn't done that. And I'm not sure why I did. I do remember thinking that Korea wasn't nearly as interesting as Japan - and I mean, my job, my situation, my contact with the locals and all the stories that Japan gave me to write about. I might have to write about this at some future point. But right when I should have started recording everything about one of the biggest changes a guy can go through - having a kid, being a father, etc - I completely stopped writing. Why? So stupid.

    Anyway, here I am again. This time I'm not sure what to expect out of myself with regards to this blog. Reading my stuff about Japan, I see that life was absolutely full of adventure, even in my day-to-day life. I never knew what was going to happen. And reading of my first couple years in Korea, while not quite as crazy as Japan was, there was still so much to write about. But here, in Troy, Alabama....nothing happens. Seriously, nothing interesting happens. Besides writing about the kids - and let's be honest, having kids is great, but there is a day-to-day routine that you tend to fall into and pretty soon, you can't tell the days apart - I'm really not sure what to put in here. But I'll try. I'll try.