Intro to, uh, whatever...

Well, I guess this initial post is an admittance to defeat, at least temporary defeat. See my plan, my scheme, my journey if you will, was to create my own website. One where I could post and doodle and have a few extras here and there. That, however, is harder than it sounds (which it already might sound pretty hard). I made my way through the entire design process, I think...because I kept finding new things to add but that is irrelevant, and once I got to the programming part, I ran into a few errors. I'd explain those here, but I doubt many people wish to hear the woes of a newbie PHP programmer. To sum it up, I couldn't get my nav buttons working how I wanted them to work.

So I guess, possibly, that an introduction is in order so you know a little about me and well me. My name is Daniel, but I will answer to pretty much any form of that with pretty much any title preceding it (i.e. Sir Dan, Lord Daniel, etc.). At the time of this post I am nearing the end of my 18th year on this here planet. I reside in a dorm in the lakeshore area of the UW-Madison campus. I currently am in the process of ridding my schedule of prerequisites for the School of Journalism. Come to think of it I think there is only one class that is a prerequisite...hmm I should look into that. At the moment I am on a leave of absence from two separate jobs, and I am in the process of finding one here on campus. I have a very diverse background, leading me to describe myself as a "Jack of all trades, master of none." I am an avid doodler, especially when I should be taking notes during class. There is a possibility that I will post some doodles de temps en temps. I am big on computers too, depending on my mood I specialize in hardware and web programming but I am no stranger to games, tricks, and programming languages. Soccer has been my passion for the past twelve years of my life, but due to lack of a team running has become the substitute. I find that late night runs down State Street are rather relaxing. Finally, for now, naps are one of my favorite discoveries of the year.

Without being conceded, vain and/or sounding like a middle schooler on Myspace I'll try and give you a brief description of my "personality." I am laid back, don't take everything I say seriously. Let me repeat, don't take everything I say seriously. If you do, however, please be prepared to be offended. I have this tendency to procrastinate too, so far I am on the second day of writing this. Avoid rubbing me the wrong way, feel free to rub me the right way. If you choose the wrong way, you will be blacklisted in my mind making anything you have said/say/will say moot. Try and make me forgive and forget, I triple-dog-dare you. Free, open mindedness is the way to be. I avoid the norm, that is unless I agree with the norm or rather the norm agrees with me.

Wow, I look back on this and read it and see that I am pretty spacey (if you don't agree with this sentence then that means I went back and cleaned it up a bit). But yeah, I intend to use this journal more as a way to creatively rant about whatever I feel the need. Normally I would rant to my friends but sadly I don't have the same caliber friends here (no offense if your one of those but we haven't had the 16 years required to build a 16 year bond). So I guess, those of you reading this are my new close friends. Feel free to offer feedback, objections or just passively sit by and listen.