A what?

A conlang! To finish the last of the introductory posts, I'm going to reveal my hobby. I've sort of had an interest in doing this for a while, but always felt it was just somehow too weird, that my friends would find it weird, or that I'd never get anything out of it. Then I remembered who my friends were (Hi friends!).
So I'm going ahead with it. But wait, I've yet to introduce it properly. It's conlanging. Or, making a language.
Inspired by Tolkien, and really inspired by Mark Rosenfelder (zompist.com), I've decided to try my hand at language creation.
My biggest linguistic inspirations are Japanese and English, thus far. I also like the sound of Old English and Latin.
Still, I'm not an expert linguist... hardly an amateur. So, maybe I won't quite get everything right away, but as I develop my skills, develop and revise my language, you will be along for the ride.