Kim's Blog

Introduction

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So welcome to my official blog. Not those unofficial ones from my adoring fans. Wait, I don't have adoring fans. ;-) Okay, so I'm kidding... I don't really want adoring fans; at least not until I do something to warrant it, which isn't likely to happen anytime soon. No, this is a blog for me, and whomever else happens to wander in here w/an interest in what I've got to say.

The irony is that the people likely to read my tiny little corner of the web are likely to know all the details of my life that I'll likely share here, and the rest of you are likely not to care too much. This is the irony of a blog with personal happenings, isn't it?

When I started my personal web page, there was no MySpace, Yahoo 360, Windows Live, Facebook, and the plethora of other social networking sites with easy-to-use blogs. There was simply me and a few other geeks who knew how to 'hack' HTML actually painstakingly writing blog entries... like I'm still doing for this site.

Perhaps, then, it's time for me to simply turn my 'blog' over to those sites, and refer you to them. However, if I do decide to write more on this blog, you'll be able to find my writings here.

My writings. That would be my musings, my philosophical ramblings, my observation of being in the world, the issues and happenings in my life. Sometimes the entries will be, I think, interesting and thought-provoking; and other times they tend towards the mundane. This really is a vehicle both for me and you, though certainly I hope that you get to know me (and perhaps yourself :) more fully through these blog entries.

Blog Entries for 2008

The first official entry in my blog for this website. Of course, I do have minor blog entries on my Yahoo 360 page, and you can certainly check there for things.

However, the point is that I'm planning to actually update this page. Planning to blog on my personal site. We'll see if I blog here, there, or elsewhere. For now, though, blogging here doesn't really take a whole lot more effort than blogging on Yahoo 360. Besides, as I said on my 360 blog today, I don't even know if 360 will survive, as they're threatening to replace it with something called the 'buzz.' In fact, I don't even know if Yahoo will survive Microsoft's hostile takeover bid...

Whatever happens, it's likely this blog will be around for a long time... :)

So, before I sign off, here's an entry I wrote for the Smithsonian's "What's Your Smithsonian Story" contest that ended yesterday, with voting on the finalists picked by the judges to begin in about 10 days. I have no idea if I'll be a finalist or not, and yet I at least get to publish my entry here. I am proud of it for what it is; a short 250 word (248 word in my case ;-) story of my Smithsonian experience. So, without further adieu, here it is:

My father was an aviator in the Navy, and instilled in me a love of aviation. To this day I remember riding with him in a single engine propeller plane.

Imagine, then, my thrill several years later when I walked into the Air & Space museum, and there in the lobby was the Wright Brothers' plane, the X-1 that first broke the sound barrier, a Lunar capsule, the Spirit of St. Louis, and so many more wonders!

I was like a kid in a candy store. I had in front of me a candy that fed my sense of awe and imagination, and I stood motionless, transfixed by the wonders around me for quite some time. Slowly, as if waking from a dream, I moved to the other exhibits, soaking up all I could. How an airplane's wing defies gravity, how aviation evolved quickly, how humans continue to reach for the sky and the stars.

To think that was only a tiny slice of the Smithsonian experience... my first visit took me through several of the museums. Each museum a world of its own, rich in knowledge, in detail, in wonder. The day passed as if it were mere minutes, and I found myself wanting to come back again and again.

Since then I have been back to the Smithsonian as many times as I can, even though I live 2500 miles away. I continue to learn and grow with the Smithsonian. I hope everyone can have that chance.

Love,
Kim

Blog Entries for Before 2008

I've updated the More on Kim page with more information about me... (Ooooh. Exciting, huh? ;-). I've also updated the "Contact Me" page with a Guestbook to sign, and added a visit counter so you know how many other hapless souls have wandered into my trap... ;-)

May 27, 2001: Homepage updates

My homepage and other pages have been updated relatively extensively. [Not much else to say; go see... ;-)]