Fuck.
Well, like I might have mentioned this before I broke my blog beyond repair, this blog / site has always had the primary function of being a test area for experimentation in web development.
If you want to make an omelette, you gotta break a few eggs.
Of course, there is some remorse in me being unable to recover my past FOUR GODDAM YEARS (not bitter, I swear (I am lying (hold me))). However, I would like to think that even if I didn't intend to create a blank slate, that this might be just what I needed.
It's not like I've lost all of the lovely comment notifications and email threads from all of the friends I've made in blogland. Those will be kept forever, because unlike my MySQL database, those are backed up.
While I was re-installing WordPress, I had a thought:
Maybe it's finally time I take this blogging thing a little more seriously than I had before.
When I say, "more seriously," I'm not saying that I will suddenly change my tune to sound like a social media douchebag expert or someone trying to convince you that I'm a "pro" at anything. I am saying that the bonds I've formed over blogging have increasingly meant more to me the more I get to interact, on and off line, with so many other bloggers.
You guys are my friends. Yes, I have friends from "real life." But you know what? I consider my blogger friends also part of my "real life." I've hugged a lot of you, and meant it. I've shaken hands with even more. I've nursed drinks with probably just as much.
Bloggers: you're good people.
Maybe it's time to take this blank slate and learn from the lot of you to make myself better, to become just as good as the good I see in all of you.
And now, the toast I use so often holds new meaning:
Ad Novae Loci.
In Latin: To new situations.
New situations, indeed.