April 10, 2025

Creativity, at least the productive & interesting kind, requires honesty. That's what makes it difficult to be consistent with posting online since it feels like The Churn is preferred over all else. It takes me a while to gather the information and resources necessary for the posts I really want to share, along with figuring out what to actually write since I often just barf words out quickly for eyeballs. I'd rather not do that and think regular micro-posts are a better way to fill space until I'm ready to provide substance at the right time. This is what blogging was designed for during the 2000s (think LiveJournal, MySpace, Blogspot, etc.) so thinking of this as returning to my roots.

Backlog currently is a couple of Something Interesting posts about electronic music and Esperanto but they will take some more time. Home projects and family have higher priority (as they always should) plus feeling demotivated by current events, so running a blog is not my main or even secondary focus.

Expect more micro-posts titled by date, sort of a forward-facing journal but without juicy details (privacy + delightfully mundane life) to fill time and dead air. Maybe this will help keep creativity active. Don't know, looking forward to finding out. - A.B. 4/10/25

P.S. All my micro-posts will have a random picture attached for some visual pizzazz. It's about to rain where I live this afternoon, so this picture by Suhyeon Choi (Unsplash) feels appropriate.