Tuesday, October 10th 2006

Tuesday, October 10th 2006
Dear Zachary,

Hey son! I know you don't have a clue about what the internet is yet but someday I'm sure you'll know all about it and since the technology will be so advanced and well beyond my time when you get older, you'll think of the internet the same way as I do an 8-track player, or an Atari game system. What are those you ask? Never mind. It's ancient for you, but was a god-sent blessing in my time!

So what is this then? Well, hopefully it's a way for me to write to you from now, to whenever it is that you are reading this, if ever. Ever since the day you were born I told myself I wanted to keep tons of pictures of you so you could always have them growing up and have them to look upon later in your life. Lots of kids don't get that opportunity and I didn't want you to be left out on that. I also wanted to keep a written journal of everything you did, from your progress as a young infant learning how to crawl, eat, walk, and talk, to you growing up and going to school and learning how to drive a car and so on. Then at the appropriate time hand you a stack of journals for you to keep and look back at and understand your life as a child that you'll probably forget about, as I did my own.

But sadly, I've basically failed at that already. I've kept little things here and there but overall haven't done what I've wanted to do. I've disappointed you and myself already, and you don't even know it. But back to the question about what this is. Hopefully, I keep this up and do it well, but basically I'm going to keep a written (or typed I guess) journal of our experiences and stories etc, post them on this old fashioned thing called a "web site", and also keep a printed off version for you. And later on in your life, I can hopefully give you a book or a few books, of all the things I've written, along with the thousands of pictures I've taken of you, and will take in the future. Hopefully and if all goes well, you'll appreciate it and be happy about it.

So really, how it will all work, is when I'm thinking about you, or when you're with me on the weekends or any day for that matter, I'll do my best to document in detail what we did, and how you are acting at that time in your life. Maybe sometimes I'll write that I'm just thinking of you and wishing you the best when you're staying with your mom, where as other times I hope to go on in great detail about everything from the days events to my deepest feelings and thoughts about you and life in general. Maybe even some fatherly advise if you want to call it that.

Here's to the start of something wonderful. Hopefully. As long as I'm not a moron and mess it up after a while.. ha ha.

Love always,

Daddy.