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Why Me?

Well, here we are, another new year and yet another new blogger.
Sigh.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have anything against blogs - I totally get the point of blogging, I really do! - it’s just that I’m not a journal type of guy. I’m notoriously slack at posting or even returning correspondence on any of these social networking sites. Years have been known to pass before I might get around to letting Bob (not his real name) know that “yes, I do think that Beck’s is a great beer”.
So why the hell am I writing a blog I hear you ask? Well, 2011 has brought a reasonably significant event in my life: I’m moving.
More specifically I’ve left my current job with Company I and will be starting a new job with Company A (not their real names either). I’m also selling my house and moving 832km with my wife and four children from Wollongong, NSW to Melbourne, VIC.
Well, slight correction: hopefully selling my house, we haven’t had any offers just yet... so it looks very likely that I’ll be moving to Melbourne on my own, at least for a few weeks.
So this blog (at least initially) is about starting a ‘new life’ and about keeping in touch; plus anything else that strikes me as interesting along the way. I hope that this keeps going, not that I care if anyone actually reads it; but it might be fun to look back over it in a few years time and see just how full of crap I am. :-)
Anyway, at least I’m beginning this with good intentions and a I do feel better for even writing just this post - so that’s has to mean that I’m starting off on the right foot. Here’s to the future!
M.
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