10.10.09 - The beginning inspired from an end

For those of you that know me and have come to know my "art" (that's the cool term I use for my blogs), you've been reading and learning about me on MySpace. Or Facebook. However, I've grown tired of both of these social networking sites.

So I decided to reserve myself to a more anti-social networking website. Working in conjunction with Blogger.com, I've been able to link mikethejanitor.com/.net to create a slice of cyber heaven that is all mine. Welcome to the newly created and transformed mikethejanitor.com.

No more lame cyber updates. No more Mafia Wars. No more notifications. No more friend requests. No more advertising banners for Zwinky's, Singlesnet, Match.com, True.com or anything else, for that matter. No more random wall postings. No more bullshit. This is just me. Scaled down and bare for all to see, read and enjoy. Or not enjoy. Whatever. Do with my site as you wish.

People will only find me if they truly look for me. People will only find me if they want to continue down my entertaining blog path. People will only find me if they have other people join them in the search and journey to rediscover all that is Mike The Janitor.

I welcome you with open arms and look forward to continuing to write my works on a site that is dedicated to such storytelling, memories and occasional mindless rambling.

I launch this new site on a day of sadness, actually. On this date back in 2005, my very close and dear friend, Nick "Danger" Baker passed away after committing suicide in his apartment in Reno, Nevada. He was 36-years old.

My life has not been the same since his death. It's not something I've ever fully recovered from and probably never will. I launch this site on the four year anniversary of his death as a tribute to his memory.

This is a big project I have planned here. It is my intention to copy over all 630 blogs from MySpace here to my website. I've been writing for over four years on MySpace and have gained close to 30,000 blog reads in that time.

Plus, I don't want to erase the history I've created on that site. Instead, I'd rather transfer those blogs to this newly created forum and share them with a broader audience. The transfer will take some time but it will be fun to revisit what I've written over the years.

For those of you that are new to me, you will also be able to share in what you've been missing. Of course, some of you newbies could be completely outraged, disgusted, bored or uninterested in anything I have said in the past. Which will lead you not to give a shit about anything I have to blog about now or in the future. And that's okay. We can agree to disagree. I welcome haters and naysayers. Sometimes I relish in their feedback because it can make for a great blog.

Again, welcome. Sit back, relax and let the words flow over you like a warm summer breeze. Ahhhhhh... you feel that? That's Mike The Janitor. The one and only. The man who can, has and will again. Damn straight.

Incidentally, I have no idea what that last paragraph even means.

- Mike The Janitor
(In memory of Nick "Danger" Baker. 1969-2005)
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