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This blog is "me-based". It will track my experiences and thoughts, with the below goals:

• Recording enough to remember what and where I was at the time
  
• Examining what is going on for connection and meaning
• Entertaining and enlightening anyone who takes the time to read the posts
• Sharing what I've learned

I've tried personal documentation before, with sporadic journalling and occasional photography. I've dozens of notebooks and hundreds of unorganized photos to show for those efforts. The notebooks were enthusiastically filled up and never reviewed by me or anyone else. The photos had a marginally better fate - glanced over and stored in my current favorite receptacle - and then ignored. It could be that I'm just not into looking back, but I think the problem was that I never thought the writings and pictures were for anyone else but me. The reality of an audience - however uncertain and small- makes a huge difference, and will be great motivation to produce quality posts out of these and future bits of life recordings.

Topics will be anything I find fascinating. I'm easily amused, so this gives me a lot of scope. As you likely can guess from my profile, there will be writings on technology, music, weight loss (I love reading diet blogs, especially ones with good before and after pictures), performance, travel, cooking and eating, things I collect etc. Maybe a theme will emerge (other than it all being about me), but I'm not going to worry about that for awhile.

"Blonde and Bipolar" is a phrase that my husband, Michael Good, ran across at a conference in Paris in September of 2002. He has been after me to adopt it ever since - even offering repeatedly to reigister the domain name for me. Software guy love, I suppose. I do admit it fits beautifully. I've been blonde, well, all my life. I've been professionally associated with "bipolar" for over half my life (Hint: Not the mental disorder). And there's even a music connection. I'll unravel this in a future post.

I have a modest pre-existing web presence. Google "JoAnn Close", and my home page (put together and maintained by Michael) pops right up. Any of the following entries related to circuits or opera are probably about me, but you'll have to sift through the posts about a widely distributed fabric store.