Old World, Archived?

I’d been thinking about this migration for a while and now I am making it “complete”. This blog has been a smashing-together of my thoughts, dreams, and ideas for the last too-many years. I imported various posts from blogs I maintained in various places (old movabletype blogs, a blogger one or two, and various versions and incarnations of the floodgate blog) and considered it a “greatest hits” of my semi-restrained stream of consciousness. Reflecting back (without actually reading anything), a recurring theme is that I never get anything done that I want to and am always trying to restrict negativity, rants, and whining. While the consolidation of my blogs allowed me many opportunities to purge those darker parts of my written past, I still found that my blog was always a place that housed frustration and a string of unrealized ideas and thoughts.

I then started thinking about how to really put my ideas out there for the sake of.. well.. putting them out there. I’ve always struggled with the notion that I have too many different areas of interest to contain them in one place. I fractured my personal and professional writing interests into two separate and segregated locations. I have a post that has sat in “draft” purgatory for well over a year that outlines the dilemma that created this segregated stream of thought.. and how I wanted to merge my split identities back together. I don’t know that my next move will do much to resolve this, but I digress…

I have the following semi-discrete areas of interest: electronics design, coding/programming, music (listening and creating), and general encounters and insanity from my own life. I also find that I spend a great deal of time taking pictures and want to share that as well. If I ignore my professional stream of consciousness (secondary education), this puts me in a “holy shit, that’s four different things with possibly four different audiences…”. The dilemma continues…

I find that this blog has always been my engine that could. A place where I wrote.. well.. whatever, and didn’t give a shit what anyone thought. I always found my blog’s lack of appeal to others to be frustrating, yet this lack of appeal was self-introduced by the fact that my stream of consciousness is a textbook definition of ADHD and that I can seldom start and carry through with any one idea I’ve got. This is where my blog will end — a series of ill-conceived thoughts and a scrambled set of posts that, in all fairness, accurately represent my own thoughts.

If you’ve been reading this blog, I thank you. This blog isn’t going to die completely — merely undergoing a massive transformation. More information to come

Thank you, and good night. :)