and away we go

I can't quite believe that here I am at 38 and starting a new blog, the same kind of blog I kept when I was 17. Just a simple little online diary. Keeping an online diary, more or less anonymously, appealed to me then, and it does now, though I'm still not really sure why. I'm glad Blogger is still around, and doesn't look too different from what I remember. But Livejournal is no more (RIP). WordPress is unrecognizable from the mainly personal-blogging platform that it was when I first found it in the early aughts. And posting on Tumblr or X is not blogging. Substack and Medium are for people who have a point to make, and I never do.

I miss the old days when most blogs you could stumble across were just people's journals about their personal lives. They might have written about a particular interest or area of expertise, but that usually wasn't the only topic, and certainly it wasn't all monetized like it is now. People blogged because they wanted to write about their lives, and they wanted to share that in a way that only the internet could let them do.

Anyway. This blog will undoubtedly be just for myself, although I haven't made it private. If anyone does find this, then hello, fellow sailor on the seas of the interwebs. Stop and share my brain for a while.