### Throw Some Confetti, It’s Finally Done (-ish).
This is the first actual post to Distracted Mind. I’ve worked on this site for a while just getting it up to anything that I’d actually want to look at on a daily basis. I still think it needs work, but like anything else in life, a website is a work in progress.
Distracted Mind is an outlet; a place for me to throw my thoughts up, record the things I find interesting and a place to share information that doesn’t fit anywhere else. I have a site for my art, a site for my work, a site for my family, and now I have a site for the other parts of my life. I need to find a support group for compulsive web builders.
This site started out in my head as a personal journal, but I’d really like it to be a little more. See, even I get tired of my personal life. I have to live it every day and it gets damned boring. I don’t get tired of the things I encounter in my life though. The things I learn everyday, since I’m a sucker for stupid facts and useful tidbits, that’s what makes my life worth living. I’d rather write about those than what I had for breakfast.
### What to Expect
Anticipate diversity. I like to take photographs, when my camera’s battery is charged. I love finding new websites, particularly ones about gardening, cool local sites, or ones that are just plain strange. I sometimes even write the odd political post, although I try not to write about what I don’t understand (don’t expect much on economic policy, because I don’t think _anyone_ really understands it).
I tend to find very odd things. Maybe it’s because a lot of my paying job revolves around constant research (we have to keep up with technology in order to teach it), maybe I really am, as my friends say, a magnet for weird. I like to share those odd things, just to get them out of my head.
There may be recipes. I like to cook. A lot. I sometimes even make good food. When I first got an apartment in college, I was excited because I finally had an oven and a stove. When I turned twenty-one I was excited about buying cooking wine (probably because I got all the other hard partying out of my system beforehand). In my opinion, garlic needs to be a food group all by itself. So does chocolate.
Gardening is something that I really love to do. Maybe I’m domesticated, but I like to think that it’s because I’m cheap. I like good food and I hate paying a lot to get fresh fruits and vegetables. I’m also very interested in organic gardening and food. I have the largest garden that I’ve ever attempted this year and I’m already planning for the next season. That’s just how obsessed I am.
### Some Closing Notes
In the interest of not getting [dooced](http://www.dooce.com), I don’t write about work on this website… at least not in a disparaging manner. I’m trying to keep language here on a fairly PG-13 or better level so that anyone visiting this site can at least feel comfortable about the language if they can’t about some of the content.
Views expressed on this website are only my own. If you disagree with them and can debate them in a mature manner, please feel free to post a comment. In the immortal words of [Peter Griffin](http://www.familyguy.com/) (and that Voltaire guy), “I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.”
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Other than that, everything here is fair game. Thanks for reading.