A bit of detail

Time to reveal a little more about myself, I think.
When I first posted the blog, I noticed that it had "LLJ" as the author. Fine enough, those are my fiancee's initials (and this is her computer, written as I'm sitting on her chair, drinking coffee from her coffee machine, in her house. As you might imagine, I'm very indebted to her).
But my initials are not LLJ, and thankfully, the person with those initials is employed.
My name is Ben, and I'm a laid-off journalist (The room, collectively: Hi, Ben!).
For most of the last 10 years, I worked in newspapers.
It was great. Pay was frustrating, but the job never ceased to be entertaining.
More recently, I branched out into something that wasn't a newspaper, and well, it went fine for about six months. And then it nosedived like the stock market, probably not coincidentally at the same time.
Which brings me to creating this blog after that job ended, and now three weeks on, still working at getting out of blog writing and back into writing that pays.
More than that, probably not too germane at the moment. Fairly big family, though I don't have any pets, though my fiancee's cat has pretty well adopted me, in that she considers herself my original laptop. I kinda look like Nicholas Cage, which is weird because I'm half Dutch and not Italian at all. I'm in my 30s.
And oh yeah, I like to write. I have to push myself to do it, but once I do, I usually have a hard time stopping before people have lost interest (a problem plauging my entire journalism career, I'd say).
So there you go.