It's been a long time since I've done this...

I used to blog a lot.

I found blogging to be therapeutic in some ways, and it is also a great way to look back at my life at a given point in time. I am jealous of people who have diaries going back to their childhood.

My blogging was most prolific back in the mid-2000s. I used LiveJournal a bit, but mostly ran blogs on my own web servers. This was good because I had complete control, but was also a problem because if i didn’t somehow preserve the data on the web server, my posts would be lost forever. Technically, that hasn’t happened… I still have my old blogs in a MySQL dump somewhere. I’d have to spin up an old instance of Wordpress and import the blog, or I’d have to do some SQL surgery. Maybe someday.

Most of my blogs back then were filled with frustrations of various sorts. My hope is for this blog to be brighter as I focus on my hobbies and happenings in my life.

I actually enjoy writing, but I never really did it enough to call it a ‘hobby.’ I probably should considering I’ve had many blogs, including a semi-active blog at work. I’ve also been published!

I’m writing this on November 1st, 2018. It’s damp out; not cold, but not warm. I’m in my basement office just typing away.

I hope you enjoy!