Well, friends and neighbors, I realize that few of you care too much about the little bits of my soul I tack up on this website (the tackees), let alone care about the actual person (me, the tacker) doing the tacking. Just for the record, I’m fine with both of those facts. No big deal. But I figured, for the sake of remaining true to the spirit of our noble corner of the world wide web, I would tell you a few things about my coming experiences. And since this is the first time I’ve talked about myself, maybe I’ll introduce myself, or something.

I enjoy reading books most people would find boring and/or unintelligible. I enjoy riding my bike in areas I have never been before. I enjoy driving manual transmission. I enjoy the split second between first and second gear after remaining in first gear until the rpm dial just touches the red part. I work a part-time job setting up concerts (physically, not managerially) for local musicians. I enjoy large quantities of jazz music, as well as lots of post-rock and the occasional relaxing progressive sludge metal tune. I write stories, play a couple instruments, and sometimes attempt to draw insectile creatures. I play a few old video games sometimes. I dislike umbrellas.

Alright, that is good and out of the way. The point I was getting to was that tomorrow (Monday) I will be leaving for approximately eleven days. I’m going to Italy. As for why, well, that’s a pretty good question. It’s weird, because I don’t think myself a traveling sort of guy, and yet I find myself in the strangest places sometimes. I’ll be back on the seventeenth, and I suppose I might throw up a brief summary of anything interesting that may have happened over the course of the trip, if anything interesting does happen. I’m not good at it though. Ryan’s the one with all the non-fiction ability. He spices up real life, makes it worth reading. Me, well, I’ve always been in the business of spicing up made-up scenarios and other such nonsense. Anyway, thanks to those of you who have given my works a chance. If I’ve stimulated some thought processes in just one brain, then it’s been worth it.