Google Street View can be scarey...

Okay I'm conflicted on this one. On the one hand, I think it is cool that I can see a place before I go there, especially since I sometimes have to travel for business, but on the other hand, do you really want that potential email saying, "hey, did you know google published a picture of your dog taking a dump on your front lawn?" I'm not sure that I do.

Of course that didn't stop me from spending a full hour looking up everywhere I've ever been. The hospital where I was born, places I went to school, held a job, vacationed... kinda sad really that it only took an hour.

So that leads me right back to the creepiness of it all. Isn't this kinda the worst thing you would want stalkers to have access to? It just seems like maybe you wouldn't want the guy who has been sending you chocolate Easter bunnies with the eyes bitten off to be able to virtually "case" your house from well beyond the 500 feet specified in the restraining order.

Is it just me?

So you want to be a blogger...

Okay so I've read blogs for years, many of which I highly respect, and I've even tried to start my own a couple of times. I started doing a cooking blog once, then a gardening blog, then a restaurant review blog, then a my-kids-are-great-but-they-drive-me-nuts blog. None of them made it to the first post. So here's my last shot at it. This ones just going to be about whatever the heck I feel like talking about. I'm sure I'll be the only one reading it (okay maybe my wife sometimes, maybe my sister too). So really this is more about me feeling like there's a place I can get my thoughts straight on "paper" and make sense of my life in some way.

So expect to see stuff like what I made for dinner last night, or what my kids are into right now, or some cool thing I just heard about, or something (or someone) who ticks me off, or what stupid/embarrassing thing I did on accident, or whatever else I happen to be doing or thinking at the time.

Oh yeah about the title for this blog, it's how I feel a lot. I often feel like I spend a lot of time nodding at people while they talk at me and then when it's my turn to talk I have nothing intelligent to say, so I try my best to fake it. I've made a career out of this. Okay I can do my job, and I do eventually pick up what people are laying down, but when struck with the unknown, this is just how I feel. Blogging, for an introvert like me, is one of those unknowns. What can I say - I'll try, and this time no faking.