Welcome to my first journal posting.

My first question to myself is why?

Well I can answer for may reasons, firstly to improve my writing. Embarking on a recent fascination of writing short stories based on dreams, my past and my heart I want to go that bit further and maybe get published, be a writer and photographer living on the shores of a lake in a log cabin with a snowy mountain in the background. But I’m sure I’m not alone in that dream. But a journal seems a good place to start whilst I write more shorts.

My website has been a great publishing tool for many years, but generally does not get much traffic, so a personal project to try and get more hits whilst learning to use Google Analytics is another reason for this journal. I have other plans for my website including the posting of my writings as words, audio and moving image.

My next question is what do I post up here, an average day at the office is not that much compelling reading compared to many journals out there. I guess opinions will get involved, but mostly updates on my projects and maybe some life stuff will slip in.

So who am I? Well I’m 32yr old young, listen to alternative-(enter genre here) according to my numerous recent evenings of getting mp3 collection tags correct and tidy for the magic small box that hold so much good music, audio plays and movies. I remember thinking as a child it would so cool to have little gadgets that can do all this cool scifi stuff. Well it seems we do now and it’s awesome. I watch a lot of movies, love anything that is escapism and better with monsters and spaceships. So yes I am geek, but hey embrace your inner geek! Sure beats getting drunk in the city centre and escaping those shirt and nice shoe wearing angry folk. I love the concept of story telling. It’s creating dreams and firing imagination. It can comes in all mediums in these days, from real paper, to digital displays. It can be words, spoken word or images, moving or still.

I work for the UK Coastguard, you know running along beaches in red shorts with a laptop under one arm, saving the lives of hot beautiful women. OK, I maybe lied about some of that, well everything from beaches. I work with the websites and on occasions get on a boat, be it a racing yacht, tall ship or rescue RIB.

One day I will visit Barrow, Alaska.

That’s it for now, until I work out what I should post up next. Battlestar is about to get good!