I’d like to say I have huge plans for this place, but honestly, I’m just trying to kick-start myself again, more than anything. I’ve been on Livejournal so long, that switching over to blogging on my website has been kind of a daunting prospect. It’s taken me a while to realize that if I didn’t just start writing, that I’d never make the change.

So here you go :)

One of the reasons I wanted to make the change is that I love messing with website design, and web-coding in general. But what good does that do me if I have no content and have to lorem ipsum-ize the site every time I want to try out a new look? Another, more prominent reason is that since Livejournal was bought out by SixApart, things just haven’t been the same. Sure, some things are better, but there’ve been enough issues and general weirdness that I can’t really justify paying an extra $25-30 a year to maintain paid features on a blog when I’m already paying a not-insignificant amount for webspace that comes with all the trimmin’s included.

Part of me is a little intimidated by the greater blogosphere. No more will there be a ready-built community for me to spew my thoughts into. Now I’ll be talking into the void. Maybe I’ll get an answer back, maybe I won’t, but it’ll be exactly what I make of it, and that’s kind of exciting. It’s nice to be trying something new again on the interweb after all these years.