Today is June ...

Today is June 25th 2007 and I am going to write a book today.  I think it takes a pretty special person to sit down one day, make that simple statement, with no clue on how to do it or what the book will be about.  But that's what I did.  The paragraph you're reading right now was written on that great day.  I have no clue if or when the writing of this book will be complete but I can't wait to read the ending.

You see I've attempted this before.  I've thought long and hard about what it is that I think I'd have to offer the world in the form of a book.  I don't know why exactly, but I've also had this feeling deep down inside that I had something more to give to the human race.  And this is it, this book.

My name is Frank Gilroy.  I'm the son of a pretty simple couple of mid-western Caucasians of various (mostly Irish) cultural decent.  My father was a police officer for most of his life until finding out that he had a rare form of Muscular Dystrophy.  My mother was primarily a blue collar worker, doing everything from administrative work, to waitressing, to spending the bulk of her working life in the stock rooms and sales floors of a small college town's local K-Mart.

Not too interesting sounding yet huh?  I didn't think so either.  That's the main reason I had several false starts on the writing of a book.  What did I have to offer?  I'm primarily a Software Engineer (translated Computer Geek) by trade, although I dabble in Photography and Blog writing like a great many other people in the world these days.  I almost finished college with a degree in Computer Science but have been lucky enough to gain work without having motivated myself to get that damn degree finished.  So you see I'm a pretty regular yet average kinda guy.

The one thing however that has always nagged at me is my creativity and my honesty.  Neither of which is really all that spectacular in their own right, but together I'm thinking could make for interesting reading.  You see I really don't have that great of a command over the English language.  English is my only language unfortunately but it's not like I'm any phenomenal writer.  I had average grades in school and could put a fair sentence together but never felt as if I was always putting together complete thoughts or paragraphs. 

Recently however I've been told by several people, as I've attempted to a larger degree to make my presence known on the Internet, that I'm a pretty funny guy.  I said "me, I'm funny, you've got to be kidding right?"  But that's the feed back I was getting.  I've always loved being creative.  Love art and photography but never really made it the passion that I think is required to really be successful.  But people seem to think I'm pretty creative in the writing of some of my blog posts and things and have a fairly unique out look on life. 

In my mind, I'm simply brutally honest.  Or at least I try to be.  I pretty much wear my emotions on my sleeve and try to call things the way I see them without adding too much pomp and/or circumstance.  It seems that this rare form of honestly is considered rather refreshing these days.  So I thought I'd simply sit down and write out some thoughts, trying be as honest as I could about myself, and a few other hopefully more interesting topics. 

So here we go ...