The First Entry (or, "Stop Thinking Like a Writer & Just POST!")

Hmmmmm... Life is a neverending series of ironies.
This morning, I embarked on this project (online diary) with both weariness and interest. I half fell asleep during the setup, but went to get another cup of coffee (PapaNicholas' Hazelnut Creme, the ONLY coffee I drink thesedays) so I could come back to this in earnest...
Wow...picking a template.
How could I not choose this one, when I saw its creator was 'Jeffrey Zeldman'?
You see, somewhere in the mid 90's, when I was still incredibly active and productive (mother of a pre-schooler, illustrator to various sci-fi mags and game companies, writer of not one but two 'in-progress' novels, cocktail waitress by night...), I brought home my first computer, an Apple Performa 6320, and discovered I had a knack for understanding (nay, more like speaking!) the code called HTML...
I took my craft to the WWW, and, somewhere along the way, in the midst of those all-night forays and SimpleText experiments, I discovered a very talented and knowledgeable internet guru: Jeffry Zeldman.
About 80% of what I know now today evolved from things I learned from his vast (and clever, even for 1996!) web design help site...

So I found it quite amusing (hey, I take it when it hits me!) that now, as my career in graphic design, illustration and web development lies in dusty CD cases on the cluttered shelves above me, I would embark on a new project that would somehow involve the notorious JZ...
Thank you, Jeffry Zeldman, for being there (and here)... :-)
And that is stated with utmost respect.

It was roughly 4am when I started this (pain has a way of waking us FM'ers at the godawfulest hours) and now 7:45am at this point: my 12 year old son is lying on the couch in the living room, watching Cartoon Network and pretending he has nowhere to be in the next fifteen minutes; he has been unresponsive to my five-minute-incremented warnings to get dressed and ready for the schoolbus, so it looks like I may be taking leave of this entry in its midst...

Back soon. Maybe...