I missed this blog phenomenon at some point and try to understand it. It has started just for me. I am that generation, finished grad school, looked for the job and moved back to the parents after a year because they don't give you financial aid once you finish school. Now I know this is a fairly common practice, but I am grateful but not enjoying it. My parents live in the suburbs of Dallas/Denton. I like this town, I moved here for my last year of high school, came back to the black hole that sucks you back in after failing out of my first anonymous large West Texas University with a vengeance, only to take the long route to a B.S. in Recreation. I appreciate Denton for so many things but it is not where I want to be at this point in my life. The number one reason is this: I am blind and Denton has extraordinarily inadequate public transit and lacks sidewalks in a majority of the development. I have lived in Austin, Seattle, and Worcester, MA in the last decade of my blindness and can easily get around each of these places based on either access to sidewalks or transit. Denton has a dirth of both of these mode choices. So I am home with the parents living a wholesome life walking the herd of dogs, swimming at the local pool, broke, and not drinking like I used to while pursuing my dream job. The result is that I am at my fighting weight in a figurative sense, I have lost 20 pounds without trying at all! The herd refers to my pack of dogs that are a current working guide dog and a retired guide dog, I leave the pet dog at home for the parents to walk.
That is where I start on the world of blogging. I will cover some far more interesting topics as this goes on and I become more amusing and less self-help...
