It is nice to talk to you again, Space Pilgrims.

The very last post I made to the old version of Dickens of a Blog was “I, This Thinking Thing”. That was August 2016. That means it has been over nine years since I’ve made a real post under that branding.

Today, I went through and created a new [possibly temporary] front page to the wyrmis.com site that looks a bit like this:

It mostly directs people to here, to The Doug Alone and to the [still very much so being finalized] Doug Talks Weird. Those two and this site are the new “Dougiverse” [pronounced “Dougie Verse”].

While Doug Alone has been brewing for over a year now, and Doug Talks Weird dates back to something like 2014 YouTube videos, I have spent a good amount of the past two weeks sorting and trying to rebuild my online identity so that I can start posting and sharing things without relying on “more traditional” social media. A strange sentence to type.

So Many Words to Say

I reached a point those nine years ago where I wanted to shut up for a minute. Then, around two-to-three-years later I kind of wanted to take it back. However, the time it would take to rescue the old blog — from younger-Doug’s rambles as much as younger-Doug’s hand-coded functions that had been left behind by something like ten years on a changing web — always made me shy away. I would post online here or there, share pictures here or there, but mostly I just withdrew.

However, I am at a time again where I would like to just have a spot to ramble. So this blog is here, now. It is not a replacement of the old one. It is more a continuation in a way that is a bit more responsive, a bit less intensive — I would sometimes have to go into the Python back-end of the old one and custom tweak things to keep posts working and had to remember dozens of custom commands, tools, and pieces — and hopefully a bit reader-friendly without so many baked-in Dougisms.

It Will Take Time

That being said, it will probably a week or two at least before the page even looks like it is going to look. I’m going to try and not sweat it too much.

As for today, I have just spent five hours getting everything set up to hit the point I can post this. I am an hour behind eating lunch and still need to do my daily work out and shower first. Well, maybe not first. I’ll figure it out.

Hopefully, I’ll see you soon.

–Doug Bolden