What's with the name?

In case some of you are wondering about the name of my new blog, I thought I would take a moment to explain. Here's the quick and dirty:

1. I needed my name in it - check!
2. I wanted to be able to seriously be.... well, me.
3. More often than not, I find myself looking at the World and saying "Seriously?"
4. I truly believe (and after much Googling I still can't find the original author), "Anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of."
   

Don't worry. This isn't going to be a serious blog about serious issues. I'll have some serious things to say, but if anyone out there in the... what's it called again? the blogosphere? (not recognized by my spell checker) If anyone out there in the blogosphere knows anything about me, it is that I'm one of the first people to make fun of... well, anything.

I love to laugh! And hopefully this blog will allow me to share some of my laughter with the world!

PS: Aww... ain't that sweet? I took way too long trying get the wording right to end this post all sentimental-like, and here I am making fun of it. This'll be an interesting journey! :-)

Welcome to the New Blog!

Good morning everyone, and welcome to my new blog obviously entitled "Seriously Mike Roach"

I've decided to get back into blogging for a number of reasons (Most of which are selfish. But hey what human actions aren't influenced by some sort of self-rewarding motivation?). Some of you may remember about a year and a half ago I had a Travel Blog to document my adventures in Australia as I studied abroad. Well, I can't use that blog anymore because Mike's Travel Blog would be a bit of a misnomer as I have not been able to do much traveling lately. At least not on the scale of going half a world away for 4 months. One of these days I'll have some exciting adventures to publish on that blog, but until then this'll have to do.

On a lighter, less depressing note, my selfish reasons to get back into blogging include :

• It'll force me to think and read (I normally don't do much of either unless it is a life or death situation or I have an assignment for college).
• Thinking and reading are what smart people do (I hope blathering on about whatever I deem bather-worthy might help raise my IQ half a point).
• I wanted to hone my creative talents (finding something interesting enough to write about every day...... er, week..... fortnight......[I haven't yet decided how often I am going to blog, so cut me some slack] should be a fun creative challenge).
  
• I stumbled across a blog entry from one of my Uncle's favorite bloggers where he inspired people to Get Excited and Make Things. (Well Mr. Weaton, I am accepting your challenge!).
• I will hopefully become more self-aware of... well, myself.
  
• I hope to showcase some of my other projects (Video, photo, future businesses, etc).
  
• Last and certainly not least, I want to be as cool as my Uncle Pete (Uncle Pedro, you can hang your hat on being part of the inspiration behind this. BUT - you may wanna keep your hat on your head, I've noticed your hair ain't what it used to be. You don't want to get a sunburn. Believe me, a sunburn on your head isn't fun).
  

This should be fun. Now - just to figure out how to link this blog with Facebook.