This is the first day of the new season on this blog. This new season is me opening up old blogs posts from this day in the past that are stored in text files, adding them to this site retroactively, reviewing them, and learning from them, and staying on nodding terms with past me. 

I went to my folder of past posts from 2011 and the was only one post on 05/15 for all the years. That post happened in 2022. There was only one word...

"tech"

I am not even going to try to sort out that mystery. ( @ _ @ )

Before moving my blog to Drupal, this site, I was using a platform called Blot. I loved Blot because I would write a post in a text editor, tag it, Hazel would move it to a folder in Dropbox, and it would publish itself. It was magical. Before that, I was using something else (probably Blogger). Anyways, I have a lot of random blog posts in backups and text files lying around.

It is a minor annoyance mostly because there is a ton of music I listened to that I want to remember. Yet I don't want to read a bunch of my history because I am more of an in-the-moment or looking forward type. So I keep kicking the task of getting the music into this site down the road.

Yesterday i read a quote from Joan Didion Slouching Towards Bethlehem that made me want to tackle the task of getting things into here.

"I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not."

The whole passage that came from is even better. You should go check it out.

That made me think that I need to just get all the old posts into here little by little. Each day, go through the past years and add that day to the blog. Get the past albums I listened to into here. Look for old things I wanted to do and see if they can be done easily now. See if there are any patterns like "I seem to always think the same thing on 05/14" or anything else. Mainly, try to make looking back enjoyable while I get things all in one spot.

Weird that was such a hard decision but I already feel a little lighter which rules.