I Suck

Why I though this would be easy, or that I could readily do this is beyond me...in short I suck at keeping a blog, and to make matters worse I feel somewhat guilty about sucking.

To not have written anything since August 23, Ryan's Birthday, is pitiful--considering all that has happened:

• Jen's Birthday
• Hailey's Birth
• Thanksgiving
• Santa
• Christmas
• New Year's

A Little About Me

The answer to who I am is probably left to people who know me, and then depending upon whom you ask, the answer will vary. So needless to say, I am me.

I am a normal looking bloke. Not much to say beyond that. I have a full head of hair, mostly blondish-brown with some recent white/grey strands intermixed. As of this writing I have been married 10½ years, have 4 kids, and live in Alpine Utah.

I was born to Bob and Maryanne, and am the third of four sons. Yes, you read that correctly four sons, no daughters. My mom had a magnet on the fridge that sums up many peoples' reaction to this: "There is a special place in heaven for the mother of four boys." In our case that may indeed be true.

I grew up in Salt Lake City and lived in the same house from the time I was 3 or 4 until I married. I was fortunate to have some very close friends who remain close friends to this day, some 30+ years later. I went to Morningside elementary, then Churchill Jr., quickly followed by Wasatch Jr. (yep the one that burned down), and graduated from Skyline High (frankly I could care less about the football team, so don't ask). I went to BYU for one year prior to my LDS church mission in Geneva, Switzerland. I later returned to BYU, got married to Jennifer, had my first son, then graduated with a degree in Zoology.

Shortly before I graduated I began working for iServer, which was subsequently bought by Verio, which in turn was bought by NTT. 7½ years after starting with iServer I was laid-off ;-) and am know pursuing my teaching certification. Along the way I had two more sons and a daughter.

That is me in a nutshell.

What does "Yatyk's Musings" mean?

Quickly put, yatyk is me. I am yatyk, or at least yatyk is my AIM nic. At the time I had to chose an AIM handle I only had two kids (Ky and Taylor). Thus my AIM handle is a combination of their two names (Ky, Tay) reversed.

I chose 'musings' because it sounded better than anything else I could think of; however, after looking it up in the dictionary to truly understand what it means, the origin of the word is probably more apt than the current definition:

Origin Middle English: from Old French Muser 'meditate, waste time'.

So this blog of mine may offer me a space to meditate on who I am and the life I lead, or may simply be a waste of time. I guess that is completely in my hands.

Why I do this?
Good question--wish I knew. Maybe some day I will write some declaration like my brother did. Until then, your guess is as good as mine.