I've had my own web site, in one form or another, since early 1995. At first I just had a collection of links. Then I thought I'd talk about myself, my ideas. For a long time I've maintained an "online journal." I've been around long enough that I write my HTML by hand, because that was the way you had to do it back in '95.
Since I've been "on-line" I've gone through college, and work ... I'm twenty-five years old now. I work full time. I enjoy my job. I have smart, interesting people as co-workers. I have my own place. I have a cool little high-tech hybrid car. I'm paying off my various debts.
I'm also kind of lonely, unmotivated, adrift ... I'm doing well but what am I doing?
None of us our perfect. None of us are entirely satisfied. Life is becoming easily affluent for me. The conventional challenge would be to find some woman to marry me, and deal with the complexities of family life. I don't see this happening, at least no time soon. So the consuming question of the moment is what challenges to address? Work can only provide so much challenge before you get burnt-out, maladjusted, and cranky.
So that is what my web site is for now: to organize. As it always has, the journal shall live on to help chronicle what I'm doing, and I and others can look back at it, with curiosity and perhaps a critical eye, for entertainment and insight.
I will also start identifying goals, sharing what I learn, trying to capsulize life's lessons. On the one hand, I'm maintaining a web site as an auditing process for myself - share what is appropriate, be an open person. On the other hand, there is the audience: the thirst for stories, the desire to know what a far-flung relative is doing.
Well, what I'm doing is trying to figure things out. I can tell those stories here.
Watch out. It may take a little doing, but new things are a comin' ...