Where have I been?

 

You know that feeling when you want to break into conversation, but there is just no way without it being awkward?  Yep, I'm there. And this isn't the first time.

But I really felt that I have GOT to get back onto this blogging horse, for many reasons.

I will briefly (ha!) explain where I've been since ~March 2025 and my intention going forward.

You see in March, I started a huge privacy kick. I wanted to move my blog away from a Google-based platform. I tried 2 different free platforms, Git Pages at GitHub and write.as.  Both experiences were lacking. Git Pages seems to have a governor that makes any site more than 12 pages unstable (I have ~150 blog posts that might stick around).  Write.as banned me on Day 2.  They interpreted my use of references as violating their ethic of "don't link to others, just write".  I investigated paid options but really could not square myself to even $5/month for a blog, for now.

I'm also noticing a trend that I admire: pulling back from sharing on social media and just making information only available as "pull technology" (a 90s term that I do like, it is opposed to "push technology", RSS feeds are pull technology). It means that if you want to read about whatever, you go search it out and read it. You don't sit back and let some algorithm feed it (or not!) to you.  I trust that if you want to read and keep reading, you'll look in whenever it suits you.

Another item that took a long time was I working on a large volunteer writing project that took a lot of energy over the summer.

And finally (ending on an up note), I kept up my Blender learning and building skills.  What's cool about that is that I realized that I need to start solving a problem I've detected out there---there are not enough "how to" sources for the Hubs/Blender combo. So when there is a gap and you are hacking your way through the forest anyway, I might as well document my decisions and results here for whatever future reason. If they become pre-instructions for someone else, perfect. The upside is that you, dear reader, will be able to see a LOT more of my activity here because I'm pulling back from social media.

So, there.

I see I have 35 reads on my Buh Bye Instagram post-- that's weird. I can only think of one or two creeps that would still be reading my blog. 😈Who the other 33 of you are, I don't know.

Nonetheless all the same (a favorite phrase of mine), here we go!  First up is to move one post already written from drafts into published.  I'm picking up at Part 7 of my latest series which I can't even remember the name of...

Oh well.  Bear with me.