@tanya natalynn
While I am sitting here with my morning coffee listening to the sounds of the town coming to life–the car engines kicking in, the trains rumbling by, the distant, haunting sounds of sirens–I'm struggling through some thoughts.
A big part of this blog move has been taking 15 years of fragments and pulling them together into one place so I can never lose them again. A side effect of this effort is mulling over all the things I've lost along the way... and beyond things, the people I've lost.
And I truly mean lost. I do not know where they are anymore. Either they were part of social platforms they never wanted to leave that I have left behind, or they were in Discord servers I've left and lost all mutual contact with. Some have simply gone dark.
I worry about them. Some more than others, but all of them to at least some degree. I think about tracking them down. I could certainly do so in a few cases. But should I? Would me intruding into their lives after such an absence do either of us any good?
This is something I struggle with. The idea that I can't hold on to everyone I've ever met indefinitely. That we only really stay close to a small handful of people until we reach our ends.
I think I should value each interaction I have with everyone more, stop treating each relationship as some eternal well I can return to whenever I desire.
That's it. If you're somebody I know, and you're reading this, I treasure you. I hope we get to spend many years together, but if we don't, know that I have and will continue to treasure the time we do spend with each other.
#coffeethoughts #peoplemattermost
posted on 12/3/2025 at 11:09UTC
Oh wow! This website is finally live! What started as a nascent notion in late September of 2024 cooled off during the depression of the next six months, but is now warm and alive and thriving!
Anyway, I am just making this post, in truth, to test out the posting and feed function of my site–but also to let anyone know that is visiting that the site is still under active development. There are two major phases remaining until I consider this site to have reached full 1.0 status:
1. Content migration - I am still migrating content from all of my old blogs, social media presences, etc. This will take several weeks if not a couple of months, so bear with me.
2. Website polish - While I am endeavoring to make smart decisions while creating this website, I am also trying to make parts of it live as soon as they are finished. Naturally, this means some lessons will be learned and some afterthoughts will need to be pondered, so I will very likely need to make some broad changes to the underlying mechanisms of both the site itself and the hosting server once the content migration has been completed.
I will keep everyone updated on progress here, though I won't post as frequently to start because I'll be busy fleshing out the site.
Keep your eyes open for updates to this page... including an RSS feed feature that I am hoping to add during the upcoming weekend.
Bye for now!
#webdev #bringbacktheoldnet
posted on 6/3/2025 at 12:10UTC