Dang! Where did all the years go! Oh, that’s right, I squandered them staying alive. Nah! I would say squander is a bit too strong and overly negative. I just have mixed feelings while looking back and realizing, mucca sacra! If this incarnation of my newspaper were a human being, it would be a teenager telling me how much I suck since I’m embarrassing it.
I’ve always disliked the term blog too. As I’ve said many times before, blog just feels annoying and whiney, it’s on par with someone’s diary entries. Given how technology is rapidly changing in the Stupid Ages, TikTok and other means via a cell phone are more hip…and the new way to be annoying. At best, my site has moved has been “promoted” to irrelvant or ancient which I consider a compliment. I don’t agree with those who say our attention spans are dwindling. People continue to read books/long magazine articles and sit through blockbuster movies running over two hours (binge watching?). They might be devouring either via their phones or tablets yet I have a feeling most of the time, the reader/viewer enjoys the experience in one sweep. OK, books are incremental but my point stands. Technology doesn’t always sweep away the old methods of enjoying or doing something. So I will continue to write and hope for comments, keep the original goal of getting this site to be more of a conversation…eventually.