The Mechanics of Journaling

In the early 2000s I was quite the active blogger, publishing on Blogger.com or blogspot.com to my few readers.  Before I had been making updates to HTML files using a text editor.  I also tried MovableType for a little while (like 2005-ish) before finding Wordpress, which carried me from around 2005 to around 2012.  After that, Tumblr took a lot of the oxygen from the blogosphere and everything went downhill along with everything else.

Back in those days I seemed to have more time in the mornings.  Even when I got a real job, a 9am to 7pm retail job, I had time somehow for bicycle-riding and some personal computing.  It helped that I lived in Richardson and only needed around 12 minutes to get in the door at Plano Cycling.

Since the Kairos House days in college I remember getting up in the morning with a hot cup of green tea, and the first thing I would do with fresh morning energy was to write something.  I found some old posts, and my writing then was sophomoric at best, stiff typically.  I had a few readers, I wanted to show and tell my life, as young people want to do, but yet I still had so much to hide back then.  I was sort of out but not really comfortable being totally out.

It's interesting to have experienced the full life cycle of several different platforms and come back to almost plain text.  Simple is durable.

2023-07-02 09:59:47 
Sun 02 Jul 2023 09:59:52 AM CDT 

~cardinal