not dead, fyi.

I originally thought about calling this blog “good day/bad day,” and I’d simply categorize each day of my life as broadly good or bad. Hopefully, I might expound my daily conclusion, but at a minimum, I’d answer the question: was today a good day or a bad day?

However, I felt like there might be a pressure I’d place upon myself to ultimately conclude that most days are good. The same way we almost always tell people we’re doing fine when asked, even if we’re anything but. Perhaps that false positivity might even be a good thing, to always be trying to find the upside. But I felt like it would ring false, and I ultimately settled on it being easier to merely conclude that I was not dead with each post, and leave it at that.

If I were adhering to the original blog’s concept, though, I’d categorize today as a bad day. Maybe it wouldn’t have been so hard to be negative after all.

Not dead, FYI. My left eye kind of hurts, though.

It’s a bit of a nothingburger, so apologies in advance for choosing this as the thing I’m making as my first “regular” post on this blog, but it’s still bothering me even as I write this at the end of the day and thus it’s what sprung to mind when I thought, “oh yeah, I should write something here.”

It is Saturday, November ninth, the year of our lord 2024. I feel like it must be said to start things off: I’m not dead, FYI. (Ooh, he said the thing!)

I didn’t know how else to get this site started. Starting a new blog in 2024, especially one that is basically just black text on a white page, seems anachronistic. So I thought it best to start with some sort of explanation, if only for myself. Why am I even doing this?