So, I’m starting a blog. What the heck am I thinking? Okayyyyyyy…. I think I see the problem now.

Welcome to LarryLand.

You may ask yourself, what the heck am I doing here? Well, I ask myself the same question every day.

I could blame my daughter for all this, but that’s only because (follow me here) – it is all her fault. Of course what she’ll tell you is that this is revenge.

You see, I spent the better part of her growing up handing her the same nonsense you’re going to see in these pages. Her mom gave her her good looks, smarts, kindness towards others, and sage advice along the way. I taught her about shark movies.

So when I gave her some 400 pages of this type of nonsense in an old binder as her college graduation gift, she gave me this blog. Turnabout is fair play.

Here’s the thing. I know absolutely nothing about blogging. Or the internet. Or, to be completely honest, about writing.

So, one asks, how does one go about learning how to have a blog on this fine WordPress site? Does one search on Google? Use the Help Function online? Yes, if they are sane. Me, I went and bought a book.

The book, aptly, is intended for “Dummies”. Despite having advanced degrees in mathematics, this is an absolutely correct estimation of my capabilities . The book is telling me all things I need to know, which is useful as the only thing I actually know is how to type. And that is pretty questionable.

Apparently I need to know a bunch of things:

• I have to worry about my appearance. There is a first time for everyone.
• I’m supposed to have a Theme. Really, I just need a clue.
• That I need to “Tag” things so that the Google “Spiders” can find them. That scares the heck outta me. If I vanish one night mysteriously, you’ll know why.

And on and on it goes. Fortunately, I have coffee this morning and plenty of time.

That brings us to “Followers” (or, as I refer to them, guinea pigs). My theory, in starting this, was simple: publish all the old stuff that I tortured my daughter and all my friends with, so that they can read it again. Yep, recycling old material – that’s the trick to success (and before you dismiss that notion, how many sequels and reboots have you seen lately).

Which also brings us to Marketing. My guess is that most people would simply write all this onto InstaFaceTwit, where people actually will Snapchat it up. Then the Gurus at Google will find ways to market me, you, any person who ever ‘liked’ anything, all of our friends, family and inlaws, and the state of Delaware to try to purchase something. I don’t know if you’ll see ads on this site, but they aren’t mine. At least not yet – every man has his price and mine is $4.38, in pennies.

So, you are now asking yourself, as you try to remove me from your search history, What is Larryland? Me too. I have no absolutely no clue. Let’s figure this out together. Old Dogs need to learn new tricks every once in a while.

What I do know is that we all need that place where we can laugh a little. It is my hope that you can sit back, laugh a little, share a little. This is the world that I live in.