A Forum for Fortitude (and saying Fuck sometimes)

Welcome to my 2nd Ever Blog (first one was more of techy thing: http://someelement.blogspot.com/). I made a new blog because my first one is old (very old in blog terms), stale (last post over a year ago), and it’s not a true extension of who I am. It was more an extension of what I do for a living, which I think is ultimately a bit boring. Let’s face it, talking about programming can only be non-boring if you’re a programmer and even then would require a healthy level of lying to yourself to be awesome. I think if I apply myself, I’m not really that boring, and maybe even a little awesome. I also could not say “Fuck” on that blog without it being completely out of place and just downright frowned upon… and truth be told I say “Fuck” (and other swear words like “shit”, “damnit”, and “Fuckshitdamnit”) fairly often. Here it’s right in the title of the blog, so it’s not out of place. Come here and you’re likely to be subjected to some cursing (nerds).

So yeah, I’m a nerd who curses. That’s really a bit more honest. So here is where I will occasionally (probably never “regularly”, given my more important Life Duties) write about things that are on my mind. When I bought the domain name I originally envisioned it being a pure webcomic inspired by the great xkcd.com, where the main characters would be nerds who said insanely-funny-to-other-nerds stuff and who occasionally said “fuck” (and other swear words like “bitch”, “damn", “hell, “piss” and “Fuckshitdamnhellpissbitch”). But I’ve since decided not to do that. It’s not that it wouldn’t be cool or anything, but it just goes back to those aforementioned Life Duties. The decision to make it a blog instead of a webcomic went something like this in my head: “What the fuck are you thinking? You don’t have enough fucking time for that shit. Just make it a blog instead, asshole.” I’m not lying when I tell you that I even swear in my thoughts (What? Don’t you?).

Speaking of Life Duties, that’s where the fortitude bit comes in from the title of this here post. I’m afflicted with a pesky case of “being an entrepreneur”, which means I really shouldn’t be spending time writing a blog post to begin with. It also means I have to have fortitude. Thus, this shall be my, ahem… Forum of Fortitude. I will write things here that don’t necessarily need to be written about, just so that I can spend some time writing something. I will use it as a mind clearing tool to battle things like “What day is it again?” syndrome, “How many lines of code equals one million dollars” syndrome, and “Holy fucking shit, I hate computers” syndrome.

Maybe I’ll do a webcomic panel or two as well, or invite Guest Nerds to write stuff with swear words. That way I can stay true to the name, what with the swearing and the pluralization thing (if you haven’t noticed I’m not a cursing nerds, just a single cursing nerd). Yep, keep coming back because it’s going to be CRAZY. Crazy like that time you and your friend “Big Stu” decided to take some of your mom’s menopausal medication and wound up sitting in the kitchen, your hot flashes completely gone, just talkin’ ‘bout the good ole’ days. Hm… shit… that wasn’t that crazy. Well alright, I’ll try to make it slightly more crazy than that.

Oh, and one more thing… I’m trying to be funny so when something I write makes you chuckle let me know in the comments. If you get through a whole post without so much as a smile, I want to know that too. This post doesn’t count.
Peace out.