Hello there (fuck you if the next words you're thinking are general kenobi.)

This is my new years resolution. To start writing.  Much easier than exercising I hope.  So here's the first post.  I'll try to give a rough outline of what's going on here and what I hope to accomplish.

So, I'm just an somewhat atypical individual for various reasons, but I've seen some shit so I can relate to a lot of you.  My wife variously refers to me as a trailer park kid and gilded because I've lived in both a trailer park in the Florida Keys and worked construction with my dad starting at about 7 years old.  Then I've also lived with my mom and my stepdad up in new England.  He was making pretty decent money, so we were doing ok.  In the 33 years since, I've been both decently well off (I mean able to go out for dinner occasionally, I would barely consider myself part of the new middle class) and broke as fuck, so really, I don't know my socioeconomic background, but I can relate to both.

My parents also divorced when i was around 7; apparently some crazy shit happened involving murder, drug deals, witness protection. I barely remember any of it, I was quite small, but I've heard some details over the years.  I'll post about that some other time probably.

So now, I'm 40.  I've also worked a lot of different jobs in a lot of different industries, which gives me a background in a ton of different shit.  But now I'm disabled, like even the government agrees, I'm on SSDI, it sucks but like, am I retired? That's kind of cool; I do hate working honestly.  But regardless, shit makes me depressed as fuck.

So, it probably doesn't matter who you are, we can probably understand each other.  So, a) this is basically old man yelling at clouds but hopefully its basically therapy for me but b) maybe I can help some people see eye to eye, and maybe that'll eventually help turn around this culture war, and we can start picking the correct fights.

So, here we go. Maybe I'll be back tomorrow. Take care.

Jon