Hello and welcome to the first published thoughts of TFTO.  I’m not exactly sure where this little project will lead (how many blogs start exactly like this?), but I do have a couple of goals I would like to accomplish through this little endeavor. 

After seeing an ad for “The Bucket List” movie starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman I decided that it was time to start following up on my own version of a bucket list.  However, my list isn’t about things I would like to do before I “kick the bucket.”  Rather, I feel that there are things that I would like to learn how to do and accomplish that would in turn lead to more interesting and adventurous tasks as my life progresses.

So where does this blog fit in?  Well, the idea behind the blog wasn’t really a blog at all.  I’m actually trying to create my own little web page and this just happened to be the easiest way to start.  Having not been a Computer Science major in university (quite the opposite actually) I felt that rather than jumping head first into HTML or something similar, I would start easy and work my way up from there.  Who knows, maybe after I’ve mastered the do-it-yourself blog I’ll move onto something like Dreamweaver and then on to full HTML (crazy talk I know).

But for now, here’s where I’m at.  Writing a blog I never intended to write about topics that I can’t begin to guess at.  So we’ll see where this ends up.

If you have any suggestions or similar stories, I’d love to hear them.  If you’d just like to make fun of me for what will inevitably turn into another half-assed project that doesn’t quite get past opening the box then I would appreciate the negative encouragement as well.