Mikes Thoughts

changing the blog

Every so often this comes up. Sometimes it’s a thing I just want. Other times I feel like how this whole thing works seems needlessly complex for what I do. I was reading Loren’s goodbye and hello posts and he makes some good points about a few things.

So I asked myself the usual questions.

  1. What is it I want here? Well the whole idea has been mostly to write. To find a way to write about a life spent and still being spent finding a way here. Here has floated around. So I like finding all the little links from then to now. That’s a big part of my wanting this writing.
  2. Where do I want this to go? Well nowhere really. I just write because it makes me feel better than not writing. I get this sense of release saying a thing into some void in Cambodia and doing it daily.
  3. Will I change this? I think so. Not for all the reasons Loren mentions but to find something that I can just do easily.

I have options and choices. I’ve gone to bearblog a few times. There’s a lot to like there. The place I always think of first is blot. The attraction is that it’s just a static site underneath all the things. I can sync an iCloud folder to publish my blog. Finally I’ve noticed pagecord. It seems a nice alternative.

What I’m really wanting though is to be able to “just use” my markdown files. I much prefer writing it all in markdown. I think because my daily diaries are all stored the same. It’s all just files. Easy ways to write whatever it is I want.

Daily drivel

I enjoy all of the daily nonsense I write. How it all seems to be so reachable and how I can just change a thing like an app and my files remain. I had written about returning to something new lately and I want to make a change to how I do that writing too. So two things I think I want different.

The blogging most likely will change back to blot. I just prefer the ease and owning things. I don’t want or need some web editor where I live in an uneasy peace with what it does. It separates me from my drivel. That seems mean. The journaling no one sees but in the end it has to make me want to write every day. To sit in the bed in the mornings hearing Siem Reap move to some beat. Find my daily expressions. Be able to just go.

I guess both things orbit around the same basic thing. The freedom to not be concerned with some app when I write. It’s why iA Writer works for me. It mostly removes the daily trappings of choice and makes me write. And then I want to write.

That’s the final ease of things. Where is it easier to just write. I’m kinda tired of this complexity. This using things like I do now. I cannot just do bearblog again. Pagecord, Pika, or other services really would not work either.

I’ll be changing things soon I think.