Continuing where I left off...

I have 3 drafts in this blog that looks as though I have started twice already.. then the third entry was more like a diary entry while I was at Flathead Lake when I realized that I needed to begin writing these thoughts out of my head. It's getting too jumbled up there! Writing really is helpful... it's a habit I need to be better about.

I am writing here today because of the state of things right now. Drumpf years equal sadness.. surrounded by these slack jawed fuck tards praising the fall of democracy,  embracing this sick, uncaring, reckless Oligarchy. I always thought it was silly learning those words in elementary history class.. but holy shit, here we are, huh?! 

I am writing because social media life has been crunched down into the fist of Meta (hell, I need to see who owns Blogger at this point. I checked, its google).. I am watching this great migration of online personas moving to Bluesky. It sounds lovely, but getting sucked into a new social media where the cycle can potentially start all over just does not beacon me whatsoever. 

I want to take it back to 1999. I want to curate my email address book like I used to after an amazing summer away at Camp Coyote. Digital, yet personal. Direct and meaningful contact. That's what I want from my social time spent online. 

This seems like an appropriate time to mention my time machine back to 1999... I am about to make an amazing purchase of a '99 Chrysler town & country minivan! It seems like the perfect in-between option so I can keep my truck, not blow $50k on the base model of a build-out van, and now have a little camping rig for the sort of roadtripping that I love so much.

If/when Meta falls out/becomes too much BS to support, I'd like to have this blog going so I can still have a way to show my current adventures without being tied to IG or some new platform. This thought process is spiraling me into a social media blackout.. ugh. There is nothing pure... everything is about monetization and wrestling with acceptance of that fact feels like it will take a lifetime with no actual end in sight... so i dunno.. thats where I am now.

Anyway... I hitting publish on this post this time! Gotta start sometime!