Hello, and thank you for taking the time to read this, my first blog entry. This is actually the fifth time I've tried making a blog, but I'm pretty sure none of them are still available. I'm not sure what I want this blog to contain. My last blog was photography tips, but I don't really feel like talking about that right now. I just want to write. But what to write about!? That is the agonizing question I face when starting this blog.
Do I just...talk about my life? The day to day? The minute to minute? Right now I'm eating puff pastry twists in the basement. I'm drinking irish breakfast tea and my man Dick Hyman is playing the Lowry Organ. I'm currently battling attention to this post aagainst my cat "Pretty Girl". She just bit my hand while typing!
But the minute to minute isn't sustainable. And when the reality of my life lately that I go to work, come home and veg on the couch watching YouTube videos until it's time to make dinner, make dinner, get a shower, go to sleep, and do it again the next day, It doesn't really make for good blogging or vlogging. So I need both a subject, and to get out of the house, which I've been seemingly unwilling to do since COVID. I used to go to the city with my friends all the time, and that's died for me. Maybe it is time to revive it. Even as the world seems to end, could 2026 be the year when I wake up and get back out there?
I have several creative goals for 2026. Let this first blog post be a manifesto. I will come back and check the boxes when I have completed them:
[] Publish first YouTube video
[] Get Part 107 license for drone
[] Do at least one photowalk of Baltimore
[] Photograph at least one protest
[] Redesign of website
By the way, expect to see big changes to the layout of this website in the coming months. I plan on writing my own layout from scratch, even though I do like this one. I just want it to be my own, you know? I used AI to assist in making the blog and gallery pages because I wanted to get this done in a matter of 2 hours, but I will not be using AI moving forward. Part of the goal of this site is to make me better at coding in CSS and HTML. I may even play around with javascript in the future.