It’s now been almost three years since I bought this domain and set up this page. I had big plans. But I was a perfectionist. I wanted every post to be perfect. I wrote plenty of material about Japan and about haiku, but I never actually posted most of it because it wasn’t perfect. As a result, this site has laid fallow for far too long.
I actually have still been writing for the internet. I’ve been writing and posting every day over at Hive. Here. I do earn money there, but not much—only about $5-$10 per post, and it’s paid in crypto, making it a pain to withdraw to either dollars or yen—so that is hardly a draw. For whatever reason posting there has not triggered my perfectionism in the same way that this blog has, as a result I actually post what I write there instead of sitting on it until it’s perfect. Perhaps it’s because I have no control over formatting there, whereas on this blog I have complete control; complete control can be good, but it can also be crippling because we want to use that control to make everything perfect.
Whatever the case may be, going forward I intend to push past this perfectionism and start publishing here again, ideally often. At first I may just continue my habit of publishing daily on Hive and then copy that post to here, but eventually I would like to reverse that, instead writing the post for this site and then copying it to Hive.
I don’t think I have comments turned on on this site. And I know the internet loves comments, so I’ll get on that. In the meantime, I will be using Twitter (until Elon kills it) and Mastodon. I’ll work out a footer with links to both of those. It’s been so long since I designed this site that I don’t remember offhand where to put the code for a footer. Please bear with me as I rediscover WordPress and the theme that I designed.
If I don’t make another post today (and if anyone discovers this), have a happy new year! May 2023 be a better one for us.