Well it looks like I’ve been maintaining this site since August 9, 2014, and this is my first actual blog post (if you don’t count the recipes I’ve been posting since 2015 on Recipes Montgable). Not sure why I’m writing this publicly after all these years. Probably due to the introspective nature of this dreary New Year’s Eve. Not really sure how it’s going to show up on this site at the moment. But from the personal to the political it’s been an absolutely awful year, and I’ve decided that I’m long overdue to leave social media (once again). Yet I still have a strong desire to share. Especially photos. I want to maintain connections I have with friends, colleagues, and acquaintances around the world. I miss when Tumblr was top. And as I write this I think what I need to do is find a way to roll my own Tumblr-style blog on this site. A place where I can share links, photos, ideas. Maybe all I need is to refresh this website and actually share out the URL.

I spent the week between Christmas & New Year’s Eve unfollowing folks on Instagram. I was following over 1,500 accounts, I’m down to 748 (and counting).

I thought briefly about moving over to a Flickr account I’ve been sitting on for many years, but then I read about how Flickr photos were being used to train AI. Probably in Karen Hao’s Empire of AI.

In the end, I need to just keep writing.

Update: Spent the day looking at laze.net, and I’m thinking about moving this from WordPress.org over to Micro.blog or Micro.one.