It's been a long time since I've had a consistent space where I can write in even medium-length bursts. Part of that is that I'm a person of few words who usually prefers to make my points in the borrowed words of others, in a retweet, reshare, or quotation. Various social media platforms have satisfied my day to day expressive needs decently.

But, that's only half the story. I've actually desired a blog of my own for at least a couple of years now. I know as much because I actually have a commit from two years ago when I started playing with the particular static site generator that I'm using to publish this missive (Zola).

I don't remember what specifically made me stop before pressing publish, but I have an inkling. I have a tendency to begin projects and get so side-tracked with picking the perfect tools and executing in the perfect way that I never get to completion. The problem is worse for things that I know more about, so my software hobby stuff is horribly over-engineered and unrealized.

I'm not sure what made today a bit different, but I'm pushing this chick out of the nest (is that the phrase? not looking it up!) before I go to bed. My hope is that I can add a privacy-respecting comment system and analytics so that this isn't just a full-on one-way mirror, but maybe I'll just write about other things and never get that together. My hope is that I just keep going.