Introduction

Hi and welcome to my blog! While I am known by many names including: Machoo, Choo, Chumie, and The Copy Machine Maestro; most people thankfully refer to me by my given name Matthew, meaning 'gift of god'. With a name like that, its a wonder I don't have a big head, or maybe I do and I just don't know it...yet. I personally think its a wonderful name. My mother tried her best to come up with a name that people would be hard pressed to make fun of. Except for the occasional Machoo! and Mattie-kins, I think she did a great job...

Ok ok ok I like my name, so what?? I assume you want to get to the meat and potatoes of this new blog. Who am I, what do I do, and why I am writing this blog? Well the first thing you should know about me is that I have a hard time staying focused. Whether it’s from book to book, footnote to footnote ,webpage to webpage, or thought to thought, I was born with and have developed over the years a distinct impatience when it comes to reading and writing. I like to think of myself following in the footsteps of Leonardo de Vinci...

Besides both of us being shear and utter geniuses, we both share a certain fickle mindedness. During the renaissance, Leonardo was busy tear-assing around Europe and had to leave a lot of his works unfinished. As for me, I just get bored and move on to something new. So to be fair, I have almost nothing in common with De Vinci, but I like to think I do and thats what matters...to me. Its now taken the better part of several days just finish this first post. I have pages and pages filled with useless, non-sequitur, self referential dialog, all of which I could have posted. Yet after hours of typing and re-typing, thinking and re-thinking, I finally came to the conclusion that I really like my name...and thats really the only thing I was really sure about. Its funny how that works.