Published 2025-07-21
tag(s): #blogging #meta
I was on vacation for a week. Which was refreshing, and exactly what me and the fam needed
after a non-stop roller-coaster of happenings between August 2023 and last week.
We were on a cruise, with very limited internet access. We made a conscious choice not to buy
any internet access package, which was an interesting experience.
Now, as I mentioned a couple times before[1], I feel like I have outlet
for thoughts that before were just gone.
Many times I had some idea in passing, but now if that idea lingers for a bit more, instead
of just letting it go, I figure that maybe it is a good topic for a post.
That starts a process where the idea comes and goes a few times, and then some "stream of
text" about it makes it onto this site.
Last week, since I was experiencing so many things for the first time, I put a lot of little observations in an (offline) note, as topics to write about when I was back.
Well, during this morning's commute, I looked at the list and everything on
it seemed like garbage. 🤣
Just stupid "ideas", uninspired observations, or little snippets where I didn't even know what
I meant with the note.
I had this site long enough to know that stuff that seems like a amorphous and unpublishable thought at first, might take shape into something more coherent later[2]. I am giving last week's Hoagie the benefit of doubt, and won't delete all the notes. Yet.
So while I celebrate that I feel I have a safe space for whatever I have to say, I have to
also recognize that I still don't have a clue what makes the blog, and by extension my own
head, tick a certain way where something makes sense.
Or at least I think it makes sense enough that I push it online.
(I rarely, if ever, revisit what I wrote other than to correct mistakes. That's one way to not
have regrets about "bad" content).
I am not a fan of the "blogging about blogging" thing, but I had an irresistible urge to write
and this is what was in my head the last 10 minutes. That "I don't know how to blog".
So here we are.