An Unceremonious Beginning

I have a salad and half of an Alley Cat Cafe veggie panini sitting next to me. The salad is colourfully topped with grilled-pepper-droppings of the other half of the sandwich, which is now in the process of becoming me.


The Alley Cat has become my primary connection to the internet, as my family home in Meadow Valley, CA, my residence for the past one and three-quarter years, has no internet, dial-up or otherwise. There is no AT&T wireless service there, and only spotty Verizon service (when the wind shifts). We don't even have caller ID on our land-line phone there. Technology has been superseded by the peace of rurality.


I have no facebook*, I don't tweet, nor do I have a myspace, and I do not plan on using said social networking sites anytime soon (*: actually, I do have a facebook profile, created in 2004or5, when I was at the University of Nevada, Reno; but I haven't logged on in years, and I don't remember the password I used, so I can't delete it...).

Hence this blog: I have reconciled my desire to not be tied to technology with the need of contemporary human communication. Its purpose shall be to keep those who know me up to date with my life and my art, and for those whom I shall meet to become acquainted with my life and my art.

There will be much more to come, but now I must run to my last painting class I will likely ever take at Feather River College.