Everything Happens In Time and Space.

When: 2010 Where: The World Wide Web Tick-tock. Tick-tock. It's time! Time for me to join in on another digital fad. Time to upload my thoughts and experiences onto some server in a high-security vault in the Sierra Nevada. Time to rethink my schedule to allot time for 'blogging' while still having time to pay the bills, practice personal hygiene, and honor my vows of "...til death do us part". Time to spend every other memory thinking "how can I pigeon-hole that in to a blog post?" It's time! Webster's dictionary defines time as "a nonspatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future". OK. Since you put it that way. To fill that "nonspatial" void, enter 'space'. I won't even begin to scribe what that word means to geographers or how many class lectures I heard about how to use its properties to bolster the confidence and validity of a discipline and its practitioners who often feel discredited by others in academia. For that matter, space AND time are the quintessential components of geography and its respective research genres. I suppose that's what drew me to geography in college and why I sought to compose a thesis that oozed space and time; perhaps to the extent that it was the foundation of the research topic. But I'm not here to talk about geography, or school, or Webster's dictionary. I promise that this blog is not, by any means, a philosophical medium. This is the last time you're going to get any philosophy from me. Rather, this blog is a place for me to share those life experiences (personal or not) that all share the common threads of space and time. 'Time' (specifically, dates) has always intrigued me. My dad and (especially) his mom remember dates better than anyone really should and apparently I inherited that gene. I was homeschooled through 2nd grade (I'll give Debby a moment to compose herself before moving on). When I started school in 3rd grade, I memorized the birthdays of every kid in my class (which was only about 25 students) and remember 90% of them to this day (and about half of those within my social spheres since then). But history also fascinates me. Not in the stereotypical sense of the boring history teacher in 6th grade (sorry Mr. Vis), but wondering things like "What did downtown Manhattan look like 900 years ago" or "What did Abe Lincoln's voice sound like" (picture the Gettysburg address) or "How much do I look like my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather" (he was probably my age sometime around 1700). That kind of history interests me; the weird kind. Ironically, my great-great-grandfather's name was Weird (German, pronounced "Veerd"). And then, along came geography and my new affinity for 'space' gave way to the union of the components of this blog. And now you have to hear about it. So prepare yourself, for posts that contain many pictures, videos, maps, and graphs, all centered around my quirky interests and random experiences which all occur in...time and space. The WHEN and WHERE of my life. This is just that awkward, introductory post that explains the title of the blog, what its content will likely be, and why its worth creating - all put together in an incoherent, jumble of words that the author hopes will translate to the reader what is on their mind.