Finally Back Again

Wow. November was my last post, huh? Well, this blog has had a lot of lapses over the years, and it’s always been my fault as I get distracted or my enthusiasm dips for a bit. But not this time! This time I was a bit shaken up by the crazy Wordpress drama that happened a few months ago, and decided that maybe I didn’t want to have my site hosted by them and built on top of the Wordpress engine. It’s only a small blog after all, and after searching around, I figured a static site would be the best way to go. You know, like how ALL sites used to be, static! But getting my blog off of Wordpress turned out to be harder than I had anticipated, and I had several failed attempts.

During that time, I kept thinking of things I wanted to write about, but I didn’t want to add any more posts to my Wordpress blog while I was trying to move everything off. So the site went quiet for far longer than I would have liked. But now things are more or less settled out, and hopefully I can get back to writing about dumb stuff that no one will read. I’m now using Publii to generate my static site, and Netlify to host it. I’m still finding my way around these services, and finalizing the look of the site, so things might move around and change their look still, not too sure. Most new posts seem to have kept their images, but really old posts might have missing ones, and I’m going to be trying to fix those as best as I can. Back when the site was on Squarespace I would often host my images on Photobucket and link to them instead of having them stored locally, so they’re all gone.

But hey, tl;dr, I’m back, and looks like soon I’ll be able to put stuff here again, woo-hoo!