I signed up for something a little cheesy. WordPress.com offers a set of “courses” in things like blogging and photoblogging. For some unknown reason I went and signed up for a month long thing called Blogging 101, and another called Photography 101.

The way it works is each weekday you receive a prompt and you post something based on the prompt. Simple, right?

The photography course is probably going to be interesting. The blogging course would have been interesting if I took it years ago, but so far the prompts are things that I’ve already done.

The first prompt is called Introduce Yourself to the World. Well okay, I’ll play along with this one.

I’m Rob. I’m six and a half feet tall with red hair that is a little whiter than it was yesterday. I’m 43 years old. I’m married to Jennifer. I could talk about Jennifer for days on end. She is the love of my life. She is everything I ever dreamed I would have in a wife, in a partner, in a friend. She makes my world go ’round and no matter what I do, no matter how I try to express it, I will never be able to adequately convey to her just how much I love her and how much she means to me.

My beloved wife has two children from a previous marriage. I will not give their names. Many years ago I was blogging on myspace and I was posting pictures of the kids and giving details about their day to day. One day my beloved wife decided that I needed to stop. There were horror stories of predators on myspace and I decided that I would never again show a photograph or give any news about anyone under 18 years old. So that’s that. When Jennifer and I were married in 2009 her two kids became my two step kids. What was already guaranteed to be the happiest day of my life became the happiest day times three. I am honored and blessed and thrilled that they allow me to be a part of their life. I love them as if they were my own. I can’t imagine being prouder of two people.

Everything else about me is secondary. I work for a software company as a supervisor of a team of programmer/analysts. I play the guitar. I enjoy photographing the holy hell out of everything I see. I have this goofy obsession with writing bad songs and making home demos. A few months ago I joined a band. It had been almost 10 years since the last time I played in a working band. I feel like I am way behind the other three guys, but it’s getting better.

I started blogging using Yahoo 360, then shortly after I moved over to myspace. Lately I’ve been going through the process of moving all of those old myspace posts here. After myspace, in November 2008, I started using Blogger. At the time I thought that I would try to post at least once a day. That quickly ballooned to an average of three times a day. In December of 2012 I moved to wordpress.com. I have mostly followed through on the posting every day, usually multiple times a day, but recently I have been missing the odd day. That might be what made me want to take the blogging 101 course.

What else is there? Well, I don’t know. You’ll just have to see what the prompts for the rest of the month ask me.