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title: the road ahead
date: 240107
category: phlog
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Thinking about where we're going here. I've been familiarizing my-
self with the bare mechanics, the navigations, the sftp of it all,
and now we're getting to the protein. This is, of course, the scar-
iest part. Designing a document, picking out fonts, adjusting the
color scheme of my markdown editor, learning to chmod myself working
directories and text files and such, all of this is fun and gratify-
ing. As it's always been. The long slog of "maintaining a site" is
hardly as attractive, because it's about persistence and not flash.
So here's what we have so far and where I want to go with these.
1) This Phlog. Documentation and exposition and brainstorming and
whatnot. Life stuff as it intersects with small web stuff.
2) On the Edge. It's a card game I'm exploring. Writings about the
process of collecting and unearthing this thirty-year-old game.
Deck lists, card lists, strategies, community aspects to come.
3) #dungeon24. Daily dungeon-writing entries. Writing about the
daily dungeon-writing entries. Writing about the writing about
the (etc.).
This feels like a good start and things that will keep me more than
occupied, BUT I love so many Gopherholes that make amazing use of the
space for things that I am also interested in.
4) Speculative short fiction. There was a time when I fancied my-
self a creative writer, and from time to time I try my hand at it
again. Would be cool to participate in the Gopher lit scene.
5) Permacomputing. It's a topic I know little and less about, but
the things I've read have resonated, and the people writing about
it are some of the smartest folks I've encountered. This is a
lifestyle change I can get behind, and I may just find myself
writing and documenting some about it.
6) Connections and cross-over with my other worlds. Professionally,
I write a lot about librarianship. I have a restaurant review
and a personal writing capsule. I have a website for my TTRP
adventures in addition to space on itch.io and DTRPG. What I
don't have is a meta-space that charts and integrates these
topics with eachother.
Lastly, to return to intention, a major point of having this laid out
is to simplify things when I sit down to work. This phlog post has
taken the better part of my morning to compose, between cooking,
shopping, and parenting. Ideally, this and all of my processes will
speed up as I have a routine and dedicated output points. Already,
my thinking has cleared up on the topic of writing work. Having some
goals and projects actively on the burner keeps me paying attention,
keeps me moving, the worked muscle less likely to atrophy.
