First Post!

Welcome!

This is a blog I've been meaning to start for a few months now.  Most of my blogging has been pretty random personal stuff, with followings only by my friends.  It's hard to establish a wide following when your posts bounce around all your interests and come sporadically.  It's my intent to get two new full-sized posts a week with this thing, all falling in line with the theme.  If I can be so disciplined, they may even come out on regular days.

So I suppose I need to answer a couple questions before I begin:

First off, what's this about?  I'm sure you've heard the phrase, "If only I'd knew then what I know now..."  It comes up a lot.  Particularly with respect to relationships and dating.  I'm not one to claim I'm an expert on the subject-- in fact, in my experience people who make that claim are the ones you should least often listen to.  But there are a number of things that have become clear to me, and I think if someone stumbles across these pages and is interested, I'm happy to share.  More importantly, if people have different perspectives on things, I'd love to hear about them. 

Secondly, who's this for?  My primary aim is at the life socially active men lead between college and marriage.  Of course, I'm sure there are a lot of people who don't fall into this demographic that may have things to add.  I'm hoping they stick around for at least a little while.

Next, who am I?  I'm a single guy in my late 20s.  Got an undergrad degree in 2001 and have been working, living alone, and dating ever since.  I consider myself both reasonably intelligent (slightly nerdy) and basically a nice guy.  I think as far as all of that goes, I've had a very typical situation in which to define my social life.  At least as far as my experiences go, I don't think my social life has been very typical.  Nothing outrageous, just better-than-average.

Of course, what's with the name?  I'd originally thought I'd call this "How to have more sex" or something along those lines, as it might draw in a couple more readers.  And though I think I may have some advice on this topic, I do intend to talk about a lot more than that, and I'm not sure I want the readership that such a title would bring.  So instead it's the third installment in a reference series about life.  If someone wants to write volume 4, I think I could use it in the upcoming years.

Finally, what am I going to write about?  I'd like to keep it within the realm of dating after college and the lifestyle that surrounds that.  Relationships, people, communication... all of these are great.  But there's also the random asides that keep these years running-- finances, living situations, cars, family, work... really whatever comes up. 


And I figure I'll give Twine a shot.  Gives me a bit of time to post some messages during the beta before they open the doors.  If this doesn't work out, I'm sure I'll just move over to one of the more boring blogging sites.