It's New!

Well, I'm starting another blog... and just like my triathlon training log, I think this will probably be of no interest to anyone other than myself. Unlike that blog, I'm going to try to actually write in this one, rather than just list off exercise stuff I did / plan to do, etc.

Since this is the first post of this "brand new world" (that a billion other people do already)... I guess I'll start by talking about what is going on in my life (probably should explain the title I suppose).

I am a 32 year old divorced dad. My son is nearly 5, and his favorite activity seems to be "try to drive daddy insane". I'm a software engineer and I work from home... which is a pretty good job and situation (especially in this economy), however, I still seem to be miserable about it all the time (yeah, yeah... I'm a baby). I have a lot of other interests, and I want to try different things for work, but right now I'm not financially able to do that.

See, I'm one of those dummies who bought a house because they gave me the loan for it, rather than figuring out what I could really afford. At the time I had reasons for buying the house (any house really)... but in hindsight it was probably the worst decision I've ever made (and hopefully ever will). I was trying to take steps to save my marriage, but unbeknownst to me there was apparently "nothing left to save".

I am now in terrible physical shape, even though I've been training/exercising a lot more often the last couple years. I started training for and running triathlons in hopes that it would force me to get into shape, but so far I have managed to do them without really getting that much better. I'm 6'0" and hover around 215-220lbs... when I really should be around 190. This year I am starting earlier in my training / racing... and I'm going to up the frequency a lot... hopefully I will see some improvement. Oh, and after doing them, I found them to be fun in and of themselves (rather than just training goals)... so I'm going to try to see if I can manage to do an Ironman at the end of a 3 year plan. The Ironman is just one of those accomplishments I've always thought was incredible, so I'm going to give it a shot.

So, lets see... it's been a bit over 3 years now since I got into this house and found out my marriage was done. For the first 2 years plus, I more or less hid from the world and my problems by spending all of my time in an online video game. I have no problem with video games, in fact writing them is something I toy around with, trying to learn. But, I did come to realize that that was not the healthiest way to go through life. So, for the last 8 months -ish, I've been trying to recreate my life, since I don't really know what it is anymore (hence the title). There has to be more than work / take care of kid, eat, sleep, repeat.

Well, I guess that's about it for now. I'm going to post pretty much whatever I feel like... stuff I did, things I'm thinking about doing... philosophy/politics/whatever I think of.