First Blog

Greetings Ladies and Germs! This is my first blog. I've decided to begin a blog because it would be a good feature for my website, northernmichiganfun.com to have some Northern Michigan weirdos like myself have blogs people can read. For some time now I've tried to find a way to create fresh, locally oriented newspaper-like content for the site that doesn't require me to invest hours each day writing, editing and posting articles.

I realize blogs are a good solution because they tend to be interesting, but the standard of writing quality is not expected on the same level as a column. The first two blogs to be featured in the site will be Gene Perry's blog and this one. Gene also should take some credit for this bold maneuver on my part to feature Northern Michigan blogs in the site, as I read his blog and realized it would be something cool I could feature. I'll go ahead and post the link to his blog in a bit before asking him permission to do so. Gene's usually pretty cool about allowing such things.

I was up late last night because I got a terrible headache and took pills for it that had caffeine in them because I was out of aspirin. I normally never injest caffeine, so it had a drug-like effect. I ended up getting only three hours of sleep before driving Aden to school and I was an hour late at that task. So I suppose I'm too tired to think of another topic besides "first blog." I am sure I will think of many good topics in the future to keep my small audience interested. I'm a person who is extremely blunt about his life and his feelings about the world and I expect to gain a reputation with this blog for my candidness. If it's on my mind, you'll be reading about it. I will try to be as candid as though I am writing things only I will read. Unlike a journal (and I've started plenty of those in my life) I will also write blogs now and then about politics and social issues. So stick around and you will be sure to receive a large dose of Benji Duncan in many shapes and flavors. Not all of them will taste good, but there won't be any added artificial sweeteners so they'll be good for you.