Oooo lookey - I'm Blogging!

So does this make me feel special, or more special than I already feel? No. It’s a blog. Okay?

Sometimes I might write some deep and profound meaningful (at least to me) stuff, while other times (or most of the time actually) I may just write whatever pops into my head, like right now for example. (And what in the world is going on with MS Word?) I’m sitting here on my couch typing from my wife’s laptop and keeping an eye on the dogs. I’m using MS Word for the automatic spell checker function, and when it goes to a new line, it’s automatically indenting my writing. Weird. Sometimes I think “normal.dot” is anything but normal. Maybe this is just the way she set it up since she's always writing for school or class.

Moving on….

So a note about my writing: I’m not necessarily going to be strictly following any guidelines here regarding grammar, sentence structure, etc. etc. Now if I’m at work or if I’m writing something for school, I’m more than happy to double, triple, quadruple, and sometimes even quintuple-check my writing (so I can get a little OCD sometimes; it’s quality control right? Right??). So when I’m composing these random “splats” of thoughts here, this will be my method of sending my writing OCD to vacation, so that I can get a break for once, and maybe get a chance to re-enjoy writing. I just recently finished a technical writing class, so at the very least I can look up some writing rules and guidelines if I absolutely feel the need to. For now though, those books are in the basement and I’m feeling way too lazy, err, I mean relaxed, to get up and get them. Even if I was sitting right next to them I don’t think I’d look at them – not worth my time for just a simple blog.

And we’re moving on some more….

So I had to do this presentation thingy today (delivered live, and web-based) and I think it went better than I expected. Boy am I glad that’s over with… at least until I have to do it again next Friday. If anyone really knows me, they know I’m really not that big of a talker, especially when I’m in or around a group of people. We’ll blame that on my personality, habits, and uh… my social (or lack thereof) upbringing. So anyways, I’m gonna back up a few weeks and move on from there.

About a month or so ago I got this “suggestion” in an email from my boss asking if I might be interested in doing this presentation. The presentation was to show people how to do certain customizations with a certain feature in the application I’m the administrator for (QuickActions for ITSM). So I thought to myself, “Well hell, if anyone knows anything about QuickActions I’d definitely be one of those people, so why not?” I know speaking in general isn’t exactly one of my strong points, so being the type that learns how to rollerblade by using the sidewalk (true story), I figured what better way to work on one of my weaknesses than by attacking it head on.

Now don’t get me wrong, even with that attitude I still was not looking forward to the whole ordeal, but I knew that maybe I could learn something from it, and if not, well then at least I could teach some other people about QuickActions. So that’s what I did, and I think it went well. I have another presentation to do on the 5th, so hopefully I learned a little something today that I can use for my next one. I think I might add a few things since I had a half hour left over.

And ending….

Well, I think that’s about it for now. Kinda boring for a first blog entry, but hey, I like to write, and I’m not necessarily writing for anyone else really, so there ya have it.

“And that’s the way the cookie crumbles”
- Quote from Bruce Almighty