So here I am, in the wee hours of the morning, having frittered away the last 7 hours of my life on a few “quick” updates to the site. Except I kept thinking of new ways to do things or fixing errors with the style sheets to the point where, except for the general layout and the little cactus icon up there (which is going to be replaced soon, I swear), it’s basically a whole new theme....
I started the process of mothballing my old site last night. It was really hard to go through nearly 700 posts and unpublish them, leaving only the ones I’m planning on archiving on a static site. Really, really hard. Also hard was seeing people respond on Twitter to my statement a few days ago that I was shutting the site down. It’s been, personally, a terrible few years. I’ve lost my health, my career, and now I’m losing the vast majority of my social network....
Hello world! While this is a new site, I am not new to blogging. I’ve been blogging one way or another since 1999, give or take. I’ve had a lot of different sites over the years–from Diaryland to Greymatter to Movable Type to LiveJournal to WordPress and now I’m using Hugo because, to be quite honest, I am unhappy with the direction WordPress has taken their product–they seem to assume that everyone wants to sell something and too often what’s for sale is a piece of someone’s soul....