First Blog Posts are (almost) always lame…

I’ve had blogs over the years, some of which even got popular and drove change in my life. But it has been a while. And there are so many blogs out there with one or two posts that people start, but never continue. So I do not truly expect anyone to find, much less read, this post.

Which leaves me complete freedom to self-indulgently describe why I’m starting this in the first place.

(Side note: I almost want to create a 2-axis grid widget, with one axis being self-indulgency, and another being technical vs creative focus, so my imaginary future audience can filter exactly how much internal pontification they want to read vs. just details of future projects that surely will exist here some day.)

Anyway, I’m looking for 2026 to be a year in which life changes. I spent from 1994-2024 working in tech, managing my career, raising and living with a family, being a standard adult in American society. 2025 was… a year off of everything. Enough time to contemplate not what so much I want to do with my future years as much as who I want to be.

The short answer is that I want to do some more tech work. But I don’t want it to define or consume my life. I want to create new things using tech, not be another cog in another tech machine. I also want to improve my health, and I want to increase my creative works.

All of that drives the purpose of starting a blog - to write about the process of actively pursuing changes to be the person I want to be.

Initially, I’ll be reporting on the work I’m doing around the home to set up better creative spaces. I’ll probably talk a bit on how tech and creativity intersect, and once I get some projects going, I’ll share progress and results.

For today, though… this post is a small simple start.