On Thursday at approximately 11:15am CST, the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament tipped off with the first of 63 games (I refuse to acknowledge the play-in game as a real game. However, I have no reason for doing this). Shortly thereafter, I loaded up ESPN.com at work and watched the scores update in semi–real-time. Somehow, someway, I managed to stay productive at work. Home is a whole different matter, however.

So I did a little surgery on my iMac today. It wasn’t anything major. In fact, it was a procedure that I’d successfully completed at least half a dozen times over the years and involved a process that I’d accomplished far more times than that. Yet there was something about this particular time that felt a little different, or at least conjured up thoughts and memories that normally aren’t conjured up when working inside a computer.

So here it is: the first manual post on my very own web site. I’ve finally bitten the bullet to install a “blog” system and build a site around it. Of course, in typical Joel fashion, the system was installed a week or two ago and I haven’t really gotten around to doing anything with it just as of yet. I suppose I could use WordPress’s ability to manually edit the time stamp of posts to bump that “Hello world!” post back a few days and look a whole lot less lazy…but that’s not my style.