Hello one and all! Welcome to the Signs of the Times: Underground! Thank you to my good friend Aaron Christensen for putting this together and asking me to be apart of it!
As for myself, I am 38 years old and have been married to my wonderful wife, Sandra for 15 1/2 years. (In case you were wondering, she still likes me.) We have three beautiful children and we now have a good little puppy dog. I graduated from Brigham Young University in 2005 with a degree in Communications, which means I'm doing something other than what I graduated in.
I guest blogged on Aaron's previous blog "Signs of the Times" and am pretty sure that I was not the catalyst to the cataclysmic end of the SotT. It was feared that when Aaron announced the end of SotT, that the world would stop spinning, a whole in the fabric of the universe would appear, and quite possibly, quite possibly, the Chicago Cubs would win the World Series.
So... with all of that said, I hope that you are a frequent visitor to the Underground and hope that you find this a good respite from your cares.
Don't worry, the Cubs aren't close to winning the World Series. The universe is safe for now.
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Meet Aaron Christensen
Welcome to The Underground. I'm glad you made it safely. My name is Aaron Christensen. I guess you could say that this whole thing is my idea.
Many of you may remember me from some of my previous blogs, most notably "Signs of the Times," which I discontinued three months ago after five years of faithful writing. Every week for five whole years, I posted my Newsletter that helped me keep an optimistic outlook on my life. You know, it's tough being 26, Mormon, and still single. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that as a 26-year-old, white, Mormon, Utah Jazz fan that grew up in a conservative Republican household, I'm the most discriminated-against person in all of America. So it's easy, I guess you'd say, to find things to complain about. So that's why I did every Tuesday. It helped me Feel Good About Myself. But my beloved blog got to the point where I needed to change things up. There came a point where I knew I couldn't possibly do anything more with my blog than I had previously been doing. It wasn't going to get any more popular and I couldn't really talk about many of the things that I actually wanted to discuss anymore. Plus, I finally came to my senses and asked, Why the heck am I telling these people such detailed information about my personal life?? So I stopped. Straight-up stopped. Thankfully, being the OCD freak that I am, I was able to stop it on the five-year anniversary of its creation. Five years. Five is a good number. I like it.
These past three months, I always knew I'd do something else. I even had a rough idea of what I wanted to do. I just didn't know how I was going to get it started - and I knew I couldn't do it alone. There are many times when I wish I had more blogs to read. I think that many people out there are actually very good authors. They just don't realize it. So, in order to help my friends realize their full potential - and also to give myself more interesting stuff to read online - I decided to create a community of bloggers, including my funniest friends, to blog about the things that we care most about. It is my hope that we will be able to blog about our personal interests and hobbies, no matter how nerdy. We will develop our talent for writing, we can embellish our journalistic portfolios, we will open the eyes of our readers to things they may not have known about or tried in the past, and, heck, if this goes as well as I want it to, I'm hoping that we will be able to create an enormous online presence and maybe make a little money out of it.
But why "SotT: Underground"? Naturally, when I decided to end "Signs of the Times," I wanted to escape all the fame and stress of my celebrity lifestyle. So I found a bunker in an abandoned subway tunnel and I went underground. After a while, I started thinking and, you know, I kinda liked it down there. Then I thought some more. For the last five years, I had warned my Loyal Subscribers of the "Signs of the Times" of this technological generation. I'm trying to save you from the stupidity of our own popular culture. There are a lot of crazies out there and I want to protect all of you. I figure there's an apocalypse coming. And when that apocalypse comes, we're all going to head to The Underground. It's safe here. Stay for a while, won't you?
Moved It. Sold It. And Left the Door Open. Now, the decision is yours. There's room for everyone.
Welcome to The Underground.
Aaron
Many of you may remember me from some of my previous blogs, most notably "Signs of the Times," which I discontinued three months ago after five years of faithful writing. Every week for five whole years, I posted my Newsletter that helped me keep an optimistic outlook on my life. You know, it's tough being 26, Mormon, and still single. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that as a 26-year-old, white, Mormon, Utah Jazz fan that grew up in a conservative Republican household, I'm the most discriminated-against person in all of America. So it's easy, I guess you'd say, to find things to complain about. So that's why I did every Tuesday. It helped me Feel Good About Myself. But my beloved blog got to the point where I needed to change things up. There came a point where I knew I couldn't possibly do anything more with my blog than I had previously been doing. It wasn't going to get any more popular and I couldn't really talk about many of the things that I actually wanted to discuss anymore. Plus, I finally came to my senses and asked, Why the heck am I telling these people such detailed information about my personal life?? So I stopped. Straight-up stopped. Thankfully, being the OCD freak that I am, I was able to stop it on the five-year anniversary of its creation. Five years. Five is a good number. I like it.
These past three months, I always knew I'd do something else. I even had a rough idea of what I wanted to do. I just didn't know how I was going to get it started - and I knew I couldn't do it alone. There are many times when I wish I had more blogs to read. I think that many people out there are actually very good authors. They just don't realize it. So, in order to help my friends realize their full potential - and also to give myself more interesting stuff to read online - I decided to create a community of bloggers, including my funniest friends, to blog about the things that we care most about. It is my hope that we will be able to blog about our personal interests and hobbies, no matter how nerdy. We will develop our talent for writing, we can embellish our journalistic portfolios, we will open the eyes of our readers to things they may not have known about or tried in the past, and, heck, if this goes as well as I want it to, I'm hoping that we will be able to create an enormous online presence and maybe make a little money out of it.
But why "SotT: Underground"? Naturally, when I decided to end "Signs of the Times," I wanted to escape all the fame and stress of my celebrity lifestyle. So I found a bunker in an abandoned subway tunnel and I went underground. After a while, I started thinking and, you know, I kinda liked it down there. Then I thought some more. For the last five years, I had warned my Loyal Subscribers of the "Signs of the Times" of this technological generation. I'm trying to save you from the stupidity of our own popular culture. There are a lot of crazies out there and I want to protect all of you. I figure there's an apocalypse coming. And when that apocalypse comes, we're all going to head to The Underground. It's safe here. Stay for a while, won't you?
Moved It. Sold It. And Left the Door Open. Now, the decision is yours. There's room for everyone.
Welcome to The Underground.
Aaron
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