Beginning to take shape

Well, I've managed to add some pages to my blog and it's shaping up to what I hoped it might become. I also joined twitter... Might be a while before I start up my own website, but I obtained some software to start toying with... however, it will be slow going. The website will really become a more formal place for me to begin launching my projects from, so for now this blog is sufficient.

I was speaking to my best friend last night over all-you-can-eat pizza. In another show of how much we think alike, he told me he was thinking of starting a blog to sort out his own thoughts. It was great to share our ideas and he mentioned the possibilities for a blog to popularise certain projects. I see the potential in that. I think I found a use for twitter :-) I can use twitter and facebook to attract people to this blog who might be interested in the projects I am working on.

About the pizza. I managed to down 17 large pieces of deep pan (really thick, not fake thick) pizza last night. My previous personal best was 14, and the restaurant record was 15. I feel very triumphal... and like I won't have to eat for a month ;-)

Anyways, have a look at the pages up the top where you'll find out an overall self-portrait in "Who Am I?" (I may have even used 1000 words... that = a picture, right?), and some more specific details in "About Me". "With Girded Sword" will be essentially a statement of how I see the current state of the world, the church and what I see needs to be done, and how I will be setting about to do my part, and what I see others can do, also. With Girded Sword is also the name of my company which covers all my Christian and health related projects. I have a couple of tabs up there to begin adding to regarding current projects which are in a early developmental stage, including my Bible project and the screenplay for the David trilogy.

If these pages interest you, please check back regularly. I hope to expand them rapidly over the next couple of weeks, and then will steadily update them with thoughts that appear on the blog and considerations gleaned from the comments of you, my readers.

I think I need to come up with a cool, catchy signing off phrase for my posts... hmmm... I'll mull this over today. For now, let's go with a classic...

Statement of intent...

Ok, so I'm going to try giving this blogging thing a go. I've been putting off blogging, creating a website and tweeting for some time, and it probably wont be long until I succumb to the latter two of these as well.

The only way I can conceive of starting off my blogging life is to begin with a mission statement of sorts. I don't know or care who will be reading my blogs, if anyone. While I recognise it can be dangerous to put too much of a personal nature on the internet, I feel like the primary purpose of me having such a blog is to have a place to sort out my thoughts. So I will attempt to maintain a balance between revelation of where I'm at personally, while granting anonymity to other party's who will be referenced in my blogs. 

Another reason for this blog will be to sort out my ideas for projects I am working on or hope to work on. If people read this blog, then that's ok too. I'd be happy to get feedback on those endeavours.

This is a short post, but I feel like it gives me something to refer to as guidelines for my future additions as well as something for others to see my purposes behind this foray into the vast sea of opinions, amateur biographies and verbal dribble that is the internet blogging phenomenon...