“No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!” – C. JoyBell C.
It’s been a while since I built a website for myself. Since 2016, I have been chasing other pursuits, and while I have built the odd website for others, I have mostly just been out of the game.
So what am I doing here now? Well… I don’t know yet?
I want this place to be a creative playground for myself, and very likely just to myself. My initial goal was just a server to make private apps to aid my work life.
Oh lord, why a website then? Can’t I keep a journal and keep my saved projects on my hard drive? Sure. But maybe someday I’ll let others peek behind the curtain and see what a mess I have made of myself and whatever it is this thing (gestures broadly) might become.
I’ll tell you that I’ve missed this. My god, have I devoted so much of my life to arranging invisible boxes via HTML and CSS, while pounding my head over Javascript and PHP… though I did have a lot of fun making games, and maps, and apps in the pursuit of learning such things.
I guess that what I have missed most was the creativity of it all. As I have grown old and grizzled, my day-to-day work life has become more mundane than creative. To be honest, the days just blur together… and I’ve said that for years now… so let’s be fair, the years are now starting to blur together.
I miss just putting shit out there! Even if nobody would ever care to see it.
So let’s see what a new website shall bring, shall we? And since I haven’t made any of this public yet, by “we” I mean me and my demons.
Cheers to a new book from a long story.