Motivation

What's this and why now?

Sometimes, you just have to get out of your own way.  I have a busy life, but I've found myself lacking in constructive habits just for myself.  I have no shortage of civic and community engagement, especially for an admitted introvert, and some personal projects (*cough!* D&D *cough!*) I enjoy with a select group of friends, but I need to feel like I'm sharing my thoughts with the world, mano e mondo as it were.

And so, as legions of people worldwide pick up the mantle of a November challenge or another, I've decided to embrace NaNonFiWriMo, aka WNFiN this month; I'm committing to producing at least one piece of useful nonfiction (in the form of blog posts, in this case, unless I happen to blog about a piece otherwise) a day for the month of November 2016.

What to expect?

In case you missed it, there's an election on! I'm sure -- as those of you who read my blogging efforts a decade ago may recall -- there will be more than one political post along the way.  Hopefully, I'll also get to a few things that are more lasting, and more technical, and maybe even ever-so-slightly more personal.  Not too personal, however: Writing for me is an act of ego, but not an act of narcissism.

Who the *bleep* are you?

I'm middle-aged; I've been politically active for decades, particularly as a political contrarian in some very red states, but now I live in King County, Washington, though close enough to the Snohomish line an average golfer could hit an 8-iron shot over it from my front yard. I'm secular, epicurean in my positions (i.e. sometimes liberal and sometimes conservative, depending on the issue), and somewhat aloof enough to have been referred to as a "technocrat" by a fellow political blogger.