How do I do this every single year? Almost always on the break between the holidays – I bust out the blog, try to dust it off, update All The Things and tidy up the layout a bit. And then… nothing. The last time I resolved to actually update my blog was December 2019 and then, well, you already know what happened next.
So here I am again, futzing with templates and pulling my old bird site archive over to WordPress, more years come and gone.
Today my beloved Pig was dented in the parking lot while SHB was out on rainy errands – his car is in the shop so he had mine – and somehow I’m not riled up about it. I don’t know why. A few years ago it would have really pissed me off, and today I’m just annoyed. To be clear, I’m quite annoyed. But that’s all, nothing more. Shrugging it off, like so many things these days. Who has the energy to get really upset about that sort of thing anymore?
It’s wonderfully rainy right now, and has been for the week. I’m under a blanket, and that blanket is under a cat. It’s cozy. I’m safe and warm, and SHB is making lasagne so the house smells amazing. How can I be terribly upset given all this comfort?
But back to the blog thing. Looking back to when I set this up in <gasp!> 2002, I did a lot of microblogging-ish stuff back then. Little quick notes, ephemera of the moment that was nigh meaningless. There are gobs of ancient Posterous posts (flagged as private now until I can review/cull through them). Once Twitter got going, this fell by the wayside and only got a revisit a few times a year at most. But now with that all going down aflame, maybe it will come back. Maybe with less microblogging, with Mastodon to keep that sense of connection fed.