recently the thought fields have been relatively barren, even after i let them lie fallow for a week or so. usually that's long enough to restore their vitality, but apparently not so this time around. maybe it's because of the impending winter season, who knows. the only writing ideas i've had lately are short, scattered, often somewhat autobiographical or based off something i've encountered recently. in short, they feel a lot like what you might call "blog posts", which is how i chose to classify that thing i wrote last week about breaking my phone(s).

as a result, i've decided to restart the blog on this page as a place for that sort of writing. my last attempt here failed because it occupied a kind of awkward region somewhere in between "blog" and "journal", so this time i'm going to fully commit to the "blog" side. no need for daily posts, no need for keeping posts all really short, no need to keep posts strictly about something that happened that day.

really, in retrospect it was quite silly that i restricted myself like that. i wrote a bit about my motivations on the old page, but those were mostly post hoc justifications. the real reason was that i cooked up a neat webpage layout for a blog based on a calendar and wanted to fill it up properly, which required short daily posts. maybe i should have just made up a bunch of stuff to fill it up with instead of doing it for real. but sometimes, it's making stuff up that's the harder option...