\u2026that I’ve been blogging at this address and under this name and URL for five years this month. \u00a0That’s longer than any other blog solution I’ve continuously used – whether it was LJ, or Blogger, or Blosxom or Vox or even the plain text updated every couple-three weeks back before I realized I was blogging.<\/p>\n
It’s a good thing. \u00a0Not everything goes up here, obviously, but it’s handy to be able to trace what I was thinking when. \u00a0Match it against the contents of the iTunes playlists and fragmentary postings elsewhere and I can usually piece together what I was thinking in a useful fashion.<\/p>\n
I’ve also been thinking about other things. \u00a0Anyone who reads this and knows me will instantly recognize me, and I’ve probably been sloppy enough that someone who really made an effort could piece it together. \u00a0I’ve also tried to carve out a little more separation in some areas of my life so that the most active part of my online existence these days doesn’t point right back here. \u00a0But I’m also sitting on a useful URL that would make a great blogging home, except that it would also be pretty transparently me – and I’m not one of these Millenials who believes that any attention is good and it’s OK to post my party pix in a Tinkerbell costume where work can see it.<\/p>\n
I don’t want to do this for a living – I’m not sure I could<\/em> do this for a living – but the notion of being sat with my feet up in a cozy little hole-in-the-wall, typing out my thoughts while the fog swirls outside? \u00a0Very enticing, whether in San Francisco or London or Edinburgh or some windswept pub out on the moors. \u00a0I think I’m in one of those phases where my life is much more about settings and characters and less about the plot. \u00a0Now all Our Hero needs is his peacoat, his Wayfarers, a new pair of Palladiums and an 11″ MacBook Air to take on the road\u2026and two tickets to somewhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2026that I’ve been blogging at this address and under this name and URL for five years this month. \u00a0That’s longer than any other blog solution I’ve continuously used – whether it was LJ, or Blogger, or Blosxom or Vox or even the plain text updated every couple-three weeks back before I realized I was blogging. … <\/p>\n