Today is Independence Day. Today we in the States celebrate having broken off from our parent country in favor of standing on our own feet. It’s a day to contemplate the true meaning of freedom and self-sufficiency by drinking too much beer and blowing shit up.

In the spirit of that contemplation, today I declare myself independent from my past, from everything that’s held me back or troubled me. I’ve meandered through the forest with no path, hoping that if I head in the same general direction it would get me there. But today I promise myself that where I do not find a path to follow, I will blaze one.

Part of the plan is to post here something approaching every day that I’m not out of town. It will be a record of my progress for me, and hopefully this daily writing will also spark some interesting articles on art, gardening, gaming, writing, cooking, linguistics, archaeology or any of the other topics that I regularly pursue.

When my day’s main thrust is web development or user interface design (my career), the posts will go to my portfolio blog, http://www.crysodenkirk.com. Everything else goes here.

Can I make posts about my life entertaining enough for anyone other than me or my immediate family to actually read them? Eh, maybe not (though trying to is part of the exercise). But the log will be here for me to look back over, a journal of my gardening experiments gone awry and cooking experiments gone amazing. We’ll see where we are in another year.