The greatest challenge I face as I prepare this site for some kind of relaunch has been the reorganizing of the blog posts’entries. Years ago as I grew this blog I drew up all sorts of post categories, many of which I never really revisited. Such has been the scattershot nature of my writing, for which I have no regrets. However, it does make sifting through my content a little disappointing. It’s like showing a house buyer a massive mansion, all nice and shiny outside, only to be met with dusty, unused rooms.

Tagging posts has become de rigeur these days, too. It’s a practice with which I’m still uncomfortable. I prefer tagging photo posts, even the ones with narratives, but I find the frequency of tags in text posts to be counterintuitive. It also doesn’t help to have fifteen hundred posts over six years of writing.

I’ve spent most of this night switching category assignments for posts that date all the way back to the beginning. I’ve come across posts I regret, to an extent. Other posts are those that link to now-unavailable resources, blogs long gone to the aether, and news articles that have been filed away forever.

I’ve always had, and always will, have problems with the ephemerality of the online medium. I am working on a series of posts discussing this topic, but for now, as I sit at home going through my archives, I feel like I’m hanging out with an old friend, one whom I haven’t met in a very long time. It’s a strange sensation, like looking at a photo of myself from college.