It is likely time to consider turning this island of the internet into a substack. I went to write this blog and Cargo Collective, the website that basically controls this blog, was down. This was a first. I had no access to previous posts and I couldn’t make new ones. That’s an issue, and ominous, too. I’ve been saving the words of the blogs, and the .html of the early ones where the design was a little more important, so I’ll have that if ol’ cargo ever kicks the bucket; but that’s not the real issue here. 

The real issue is that I don’t think very many people read this blog, an additional issue is that I’m not sure if that’s true, only pretty sure. I’d like for this thing to grow, mostly because if more people read it, and I had metrics to understand that fact, I’d likely take more time than the one-draft magic I tend to pull out while half asleep and doing something else. 

I think most of the people who read this blog would be alright if it were two or three times a week, longer, and better. I’ll just have to text my mom in the morning about how I spent the day before...

The truth is, this blog practice, what has essentially become a public journaling practice takes almost no time at all. I’ll sometimes write down a thought or do during the day, but generally is fresh and hot, right off the dome, baby. If I’m being serious with myself and improving my writing, I ought to just do the substack -in addition-. I think my mistake in the attempt last time was combining the too, it was laziness. An effort to double dip, to overlap.

A concerted blog about living in the country, raising a child, being Christian (I wrote Orthodox first, which is a softening of the real thing, which still makes me slightly uncomfortable), being uncomfortable with what I just outlined, and all manner of other things. It could be cool. The question is, will I be a lazy bastard or not?