1st Post - BLOG NAME & DATE

20130819

So I finally decided to start a blog.

Fair warning - UNCENSORED BLOG.
As of today, I'm a single gay man, excommunicated Mormon, a dad & granddad, and if you don't want to know how I REALLY feel and think about things, stop now.  This will be uncensored, no exceptions.

The NAME of my blog was going to be "KEROTA" since my name is KEnneth ROnald TAylor.  But some stupid Asian "entity" got it first.  So I added the "Y" and it's now www.kerotay.blogspot.com.

You'll have to know me to find this.

The posts I make will be dated.  The date listed is the date I wrote the post.  When I was working for Burns International, many years ago, computers were introduced.  I was working on a list of prospects, and found that I needed to list them according to date.  The logic of my software then dictated that the earliest entry would have to begin with the year, then the month, and then the day, for everything to be in chronological order.  So, my entries back then began with "198X" and then the 2-digits for the month, followed by the two digits for the day.

Since I started that, it seems to me that I've only seen any other listing like it one time.  And now, with more advanced software technology, you can almost sort things in any way you like.  But for me, it's a habit to use "20130819"  which is today's date.  If I type it in, rather than letting the computer fill it in automatically, it helps me identify the date after that.  Today's the 19th.  I've typed it twice above.

If I stop and start again later on the same day, I'll add "later that day" or the specific time.

Who cares, anyway?  I guess only I do.

Today I was prompted to start my "musings" blog because I have a lot of ideas floating around in my head, but I wanted to record them.

It's nice to know I can write whatever I want.

Perhaps this is a result of a desire to get to know the real me, and to let some other people know the real me.  My kids likely will be a bit (or a lot) surprised at some of the things I write.  They might also not even read it due to the warning above.  But if they do, I hope they'll recognize it for what it is - and I'm not even sure WHAT it is.  But it's certainly not an attempt influence them in any positive or negative way.

It's a blog about Kenneth Ronald Taylor.  Period.

My background in languages & my penchant to be "correct" and "precise" and "detailed" and "analytical" will likely result in slower typing, since I can see the result, and I'll want it to make sense for me, and for whoever else might read it.

But if I feel the need to go back to an earlier post and change something, I'm planning on noting the change while leaving the original in tact.  It just feels right to do that.

Now I'm going outside to kick 4 large rubber balls with my grandson Elliot.  End of post for now.