A new Year...a New Hobby: Blogging

It's always fun starting something new.  May it be fishing, reading a new book, falling in love (for those younger people out there), or simply getting yourself a new hobby.  My new hobby, as you may have noticed, is now blogging. It's less time consuming than my other hobbies, less stressful (even releases stress), and gets my brain a work out.  And it gives me an opportunity to write about things that I think can be useful to others.

What will I be writing about you may ask?  That's a good question.  My high school English teacher once told me, "Write about something that you like.  Something that you know about."  She was also the one who told me that life experience is the best way to find something to write about.  At age 16, writing was hard to do.  No wonder.  Maybe my teacher was right about that.  At age 32, writing does come easier.

So what will I be writing about?  I thought about that long and hard.  A few things came to mind...

1. Food
2. Travels
3. Sports
4. Women
5. Kids
6. Work
7. Photography

Of course the above does not come in any chronological order.  You may even strike out number 4 because my wife will be reading this blog.  Now that I think about it...I know nothing about women.

I now had a short list of things to write about.  But it was still too long.  I needed to focus on a subject.  Maybe two subjects, but not more.  So my old brain got clunking again and I finally whittled the list down to two subjects:  Food and Traveling.  Why those two you may ask again?  That's simple...

I love traveling.  I love eating.  I think of myself an expert when it comes to eating. I've done it for over 32 years.  Come on, how much more expertise should I be getting?  Well, of course I'm not a chef.  I don't know what the main difference between a red onion and a white onion is...besides its color of course.  But what I do know is this, what tastes good and how the ambiance of a place can affect the whole dining experience.  Traveling is of course self explanatory.  Everybody loves to travel.  And fortunately, I'm allowed to travel at least once a year by my boss.  Take a guess who that is?

My wife and I eat out at least once a week.  That's quite expensive actually.  But we just can't help it.  I don't have any other expensive hobbies as of the moment and we enjoy it.  So why the heck not right?  It does add a bit to the waistline but I manage to keep it to a certain adorable size.  So one day, while we were waiting for our food at "unnamed restaurant", my wife turns to me and says, "Since we eat out every week, why don't you start writing about it?  Maybe even someday someone will offer us free food so you can write about it."  Bless her heart.  She's so practical and I love her for it.  And I thought about it.  I said it was a good idea.  And so here we are.

I promised myself (and to my readers, hopefully there would be more than 10 by the end of the year), that I'll write at least one "review," "comment," and/or "experience," call it whatever you want, about a place, resto, venue, business, or whatever constitutes food, fun, and adventure.  Now, don't come running to me and complain about bad grammar or wrong sentence structure.  I really don't care.  This is my blog.  I'll try to make it as honest as possible and as interesting as I can.  I don't want to bore my readers of course.

In the next few days, weeks, and even months, I'll come up with a better web design.  I'll even buy a better camera so that I can fully show the world and my readers what I'm talking about.  What's a photographer with no camera worth right?  I'm currently in the process of choosing a criteria on how to judge a place/business.  For now, I'll use whatever I can think of at the moment of writing.

Since I haven't taken down any detailed notes of the places I've been to in the recent past, my first few blogs won't be as detailed as I want them to be.  That'll change of course as we go along.  I'll fine tune and zero in to what is good and get rid of what I think is boring.  For now, sit back and enjoy reading my blogs.  Bon Appetit!  Guten Appetit meine Freunde!

You my email me at:  chickenromano@gmail.com