Blogging v2.0

Alright.  I think it's time to give this blogging thing another shot.  I tried it once before, and it didn't work too well.  Maybe I'm just not an interesting enough person to make this work, but we'll see.

If you're reading this, you've probably wondered about the name of this blog.  It comes from two running jokes at work.  First of all, Jay makes references to me being his minion.  One day, Amie referred to me as "onion....  I mean, minion."  (I still haven't decided if that was a joke or an honest slip.  I'm leaning heavily toward the joke option.)

Secondly, the ninja part.  Apparently I walk around the office rather quietly.  They say I sneak in and out, quickly and silently like smoke on the wind.  Maybe they don't use those exact words, but you get the point.  I considered Ninja Minion, but there was just something about Ninja Onion that clicked.

A Google search for "ninja onion" yields about 367 responses.  I guess this is No. 368.  Billions of people on the internet worldwide, and I'm apparently in the top 500 people to use the words "ninja" and "onion" next to each other.  Whenever I get some free time, I'm going to whip up a fancy graphic with my mad Photoshop skills (ha) for the top banner.  My mental image of a ninja onion is pretty funny.

So...  maybe this first post has set the tone for the kind of blog this will be.  I tend to be random sometimes, and I'm sure this blog will be a catch-all for all the haphazard things that enter my world.