The Beginning

Like all new adventures, I expect to learn quite a bit from the first time here. I imagined this driving home across Georgia at 2 A.M. (one of the way to many times) earlier this week. I began to think of all the friends that I have made over the last 20 years or so. From high school to college and then the 3 different times in Kansas City to L.A, and then Denver, Raleigh, Nashville and now Atlanta, I have met and become friends with just some extraordinary people. I then begin to think how difficult it is to stay in touch with everybody. People move, kids come along and before you know it, it can be 2-3 years before you have touched base with somebody other than the occasional Christmas card. I began to think if there was a forum such as this that Shireen and I could post updates about our lives, then our friends and family could get a much better idea of what we have been up to and hopefully through comments and e-mails, we could keep up with them. As somebody who lives on his e-mail and uses the phone very seldom any more, this seemed to be a great way to try and keep up with everybody.

I hope we can keep it somewhat interesting and I hope our friends will participate quite often. I imagine that I will be posting mainly opinions on sports (like the Steelers suck or Karl's golf game is awful), that Shireen will be posting items on Brendan or the general uncleanliness or untrainability of husbands and I'm sure there will be the constant posting by Brendan of what engine from Thomas the Train collection the grandparents can get him next.

If nothing else, this should save Shireen and I time trying to keep the grandparents updated on every aspect of Brendan's life (we don't really count anymore), by making them visit this site to get updated. After I consult the IT department in our house (Shireen), we will start posting pictures on a regular basis and hope you enjoy. We would enjoy any e-mails or pictures from any of our friends to share with our group here. We hope you are all doing well and miss seeing all of you. Hope your summer is going well and look forward to hearing from you. Later.

Brent