Yep, the title pretty much says what I’m thinking about doing.

By the way, consider all of my writing here as first or second draft quality and you’ll be right about where I am with my writing here.

I am shaking some of the old dust out of my blog and seeing if I keep at it or if I just let the dust of ages continue to settle here. To be honest I do miss blogging, though I don’t miss the pressure that I used to place upon myself to dream up articles, draft, schedule, edit and then publish posts. Worrying about the grammar police, the trolls who inhabit the wilds of the Internet with no purpose but to be arseholes to everyone, and wondering if anyone actually gave a rat’s arse about reading what I wrote.

This time I do believe that I will use my blog, primarily as a narrative of my attempts to keep the old body held together with duct tape, hope and a prayer here or there. While I continue to run as much as it lets me. The changes that being sixty-eight, (I’m working on adding another year in 2026), are bringing into my life — too many if you ask me. But I gotta deal with them.

Then I if I stay here a bit, I plan to write about how this old fart uses tech. No I am not a Luddite, I’ve been playing with technology and computers for too many years to let it go completely. There are some parts of the current tech puzzle and quagmire that have me looking less to technology for the answers. Yeah, I have seen too many changes, along with the pros and cons that are a part of today’s world of technology in my own life.

Finally, as I get closer to seventy, I am working at simplifying how I do things. I don’t want to leave a bunch of crap behind for anyone to have to deal with when I die. That is just something that will happen, I ain’t gonna live forever. I’ve kind of figured out that immortality ain’t gonna be a part of my future. Plus, I have to — my mind, memory, and stamina are not the same as they once were and changes are part of the equation as I get old.

Also, if something is complicated, I aim to figure out why it has to be that way and then if I continue to keep it a part of my life, simplify it to its necessary pieces or processes. Then if necessary discard whatever it is that is complicating my life with something that doesn’t.

Finally, this blog is for me to figure out things that I need to figure out. Those things that will make my life better, challenge me, and not let me rot in some chair, complaining or whining about “how great I used to be.”

That being said, if you’d like to read along as I write about these things, that using the old coot that I am language — cool, maybe you’ll find something of interest or chuckle at my latest escapade. Then I’ll enjoy your pithy comments and answer honestly questions that might arise. Sometimes the honest answer will be that I don’t know.

Now to figure out if I will actually do this blogging thing again, or if it will rot on the beach along with other so many forgotten or mislaid projects that I have started and abandoned over the past few years.