My First Post!

Welcome to my blog. When I stumble upon a new blog, I always try to find clues about the blogger's beginnings. You don't need any clues, here, because I will tell you everything you need to know about Russellmania the Blog.

I have spent several years posting my thoughts on a variety of public Internet fora. I don't know if anyone cares about my thoughts, but it doesn't really matter. I mainly post them for my own entertainment and not to entertain others. The problem with these various creative outlets is that my input eventually either gets discarded, or is stored some place that I will never find again. And sometimes I really, really want to find my old posts.

So I started thinking about having my own blog, where I can post about things that matter to me. I always thought the bloggers out there had to be world-class narcissists to sit around typing up posts about themselves day in and day out, and since my narcissism was barely strong enough to classify as semi-pro I figured I could never pull it off. But, having followed a few blogs for a while, I decided I am about as self-absorbed as anyone, so why not give it a try?

In the early going here, I don't expect to have any real emphasis on topics, but if I start to develop a voice in one particular area, this blog might become more focused.

As for the title, Russellmania, I hope the true meaning of that becomes more evident as the blog develops. It is not meant to suggest that I have, or even remotely deserve, any fans. Instead, Russellmania is just a nickname I picked up in school.....during a sort of "wrestling" event. An announcer randomly introduced me to the crowd as Russellmania, and the name stuck (this was back when "Wrestle Mania" was pretty big). Over the years, though, the name Russellmania took on new meaning. Things tend to happen to me. Not necessarily bad things, or good things, just unusual things. And these things tend to escalate to the point of being complicated, distracting and slightly annoying, until I usually have a pretty good story to tell. Some of my friends started calling these things "Russellmania" events. Hopefully some of them will get chronicled here.

Welcome again, and please feel free to chime in from time to time.