• It’s free.  As much as I love some of the paid frameworks out there, I’m just not going to pay to develop them.  Otherwise  I can just pay for a fully developed, documented, optioned theme, yes?
• I liked the general theme and style ‘out of the box.’  I could live with the basics while I developed.
• It’s clean.  Both the code and the styles seem to be pretty meticulously coded.
• It’s light.  I’m comfortable enough with code that if I want dropdown menus or plugins, I can add them myself — retaining more control over my site.
• It’s (relatively) new and there isn’t lots of documentation on it already — so perhaps my development will be helpful to someone.

In creating this blog though, I realized that what I really enjoy the tweaking and styling and developing parts of blog creation.  So, as a project, I’m starting this blog with ‘The Notes Blog Core’ theme, and along with interspersed personal blogging, I’m going to try to document changes and delevopments I make to the theme as I go.

Interesting enough to keep me focused?  I don’t know yet.  I guess we’ll see.