I've been through so many iterations of web sites over the past 3 decades, starting with HTML1, using various programming tricks with javascript, php, sql integrations, xml aspects, back end databases to maintain, front end, the advent of CSS, dynamic page creation... and I let various incarnations sit unupdated, unused, forgotten for years at a time.
I don't know if this will different on this spin around. But I'm just going back to a simpler, less complex, more 1990s era of adding and updating. My web pages - in any form going back to angelfire, geocities, various domains - have been a pretty interesting snapshot of my interests at the time. This is no different.
I no longer sit in coffee shops, or more frequently diners, until 1AM. I no longer randomly drive about the city with friends. 9/11 changed the landscape. Social media changed the landscape. Covid changed the landscap. I'm in a different land, I barely speak the language anymore. I wander aimlessly through. I feel liminal.
A Sudden Rearrangement Of Birds. Something happens and the flock suddenly shifts, moves, shuffles itself. A Sudden Rearrangement Of Birds has become a form of thought I have now. Somewhere, somewhen, everything rearranged itself.
And I adapted. Or moved with it. But as time went on, I realized, we weren't moving in a better direction. Far from it. I don't know if we should go back, or can go back, it certainly wasn't all sunshine and equality before. There's been positive progress there. But optimism was traded in for volume. And so I'm going to find my quiet little corner, sit down at my table, and sip my coffee. I contribute what I contribute and nothing more. I try to leave places better or, or at least not worse off, than when I arrived.
But let's be honest - some places should be burned down. We need to move forward again.
Until then, I'll wait for the birds to rearrange themselves. Enjoy my music, and some table top RPG stuff. Whatever I think will be fun and interesting. Mostly I have decided to become unreasonable.