Reboot

Reboot.

It has been a year since my last post, so it seems that it may be better to simply start over than to attempt any semblance of continuity. Long time readers may remember when this site went by the title of Elwood’s  Nerjal. I don’t go by Elwood much these days and my attempts to rid the world of the term “blog” (which still sounds like throwing up to me, ballooooogah!) and replace it with something fun like “Nerjal”  have failed. I blame Canada. They could have used their powers to make Internet Journaling more pleasant, but they chose to beat us in hockey in the Olympics instead. And we are all worse off for it.

So for anybody who cares, let’s get a few questions out of the way:

Q: What’s with the name change and what does it mean?

A: Elwood is still my online handle in a number of places, but fewer and fewer know me as Elwood in real life so it is probably less confusing just to drop it. Since I am now “out” as an atheist, and we have such a hard time finding one another, I figure I might as well just put it in the title. The “token” portion comes from feeling like the only one in a sea of Christians so much of the time.

Q: Where have you been?

A: In school. I decided that I really needed to finish college but then found that doing so would require working full time at night while attending classes full time during the day year round, not to mention assignments, studying and, very occasionally, some sleep.  Pretty much every form of recreation had to fall by the wayside under those circumstances, but I did graduate and was rewarded with a new job, and something resembling normalcy.

Q: Atheist? When, why and how did that happen?

A: I will get into that more in a later post.

Q: Will you be all preachy about it?

A: The depends on your definition of “preachy.”  Atheism will no doubt inform my opinions on certain topics.

Q: What can I expect to read here?

A: Come back and find out!  I write about what interests me. I enjoy humor, science, politics, travel, music, technology and, of course, my wonderful family.

So thanks for dropping by. I hope to have something more substantive in the very near future.