Three Years, Four Months
by Alex
It is now three years since I’ve been blogging, and four months since I’ve lived in Hawai’i. When I concentrate on the ‘three’ in three years, this blogging thing seems a lark, but when I focus on the ‘years’ I’m a little proud that I’ve been able to keep on going this long. The blog has changed over time, from a personal journal to an intellectual outlet to a soapbox and now to a more occasional, lived in thing. As for O’ahu, the more I learn about it the more I love it. Over New Years the Scarily Erudite Beloved, ADM (Super Market to the World) and The Shambler took in Waianae and walked up Kaena point. Even as I grow more familiar with the city and the island I realize how much more there is to check out here. I’m hopeful I’ll end up staying.
In past annual reviews I’ve looked over this blog’s past. In this one I thought I’d point to the future. I’d be tempted to call these ‘plans’ but given the state of things I think it would make more sense to call them ‘predictions’. So here it is – my top ten predictions of things that will happen to my blog:
1. Sidebar blog moved to main are of blog. Frequent, shorter posts. Like boing boing, but with more stuff on kula.
2. Redesign to be ‘less gloomy’. More color and light.
3. More posting on my research on MMOGs, which I’ve been mum about so far.
4. Coming in February/March: “Thor Grendahl and the Entrance to the Underdark” (name still pending).
5. A ‘the dissertation is finished’ post.
6. Possible DGI renascence and/or group blog.
7. Publications in left hand sidebar.
8. Proper blogroll etc. in other sidebar.
9. The birth of Poreke Press
10. MP3s of me and the SEB singing.
If any of this seems like a terrible, terrible idea let me know. Happy new year everyone!
I am so in favor of bringing more color and light to this thing. You’re, like, IN THE TROPICS! Your blog should be rubbing it in our cold Chicago faces.
I have a Hawaiian-inspired pattern I once designed for a project — if you want to use it on your blog, just let me know, I can send it your way.
If you are intent on exploring the Underdark, make sure to bring at least two arcane spellcasters with “Lower Resistance” ready to roll. Drow are easy fodder without their natural magic resistance.