Yesterday, I jumped back into what was the wild wild west of blogging. After a couple decades of being an activity the world of blogging is really just a flood of small media outlets. Some eventually gained some attention and others did not. For the most part you have a lot of aggregators pulling links together and presenting them to people by algorithm. All those original sources of the links exist and those sites are up and running. Some of them have actual physical newspapers, magazines, or are purely digital forums. My words within this blog don’t really go anywhere. I have turned off most of the echo into social media. That entire effort is to just allow the possibility of writing out loud. I’m writing for an audience of consideration at the moment as these thoughts are written down. 

Sitting down and spending a few minutes writing at the start of the day is something that I have done for years, but generally I have not just posted that content every day. That is an action that sort of stopped some time ago for a particular reason. A lot of my writing notes are a reflection of the moment and don’t really have an ongoing directional contribution to anything. It’s that lack of contribution to something beyond my general notion that writing should be additive overall instead of just adjacently observational. Yes, I could be writing more on a daily basis. No, you cannot really go back and recapture that writing time. Both of those things are going to be true and just writing about them (I’m aware I’m doing that now) won’t change the direction of the ship. Writing about the process of navigating a ship for days on end won’t make a directional change in the pathing. 

You may have guessed from the post title today that I have been thinking about buying a printer. It’s probably not something that needs to be purchased. Over the last week I have spent some time considering color laser printers to print articles out and store them or something. I’ll admit that generally reading something that is printed out causes me to consider things a little bit differently. Some of the better papers that I want to keep for future reference are something that I want to print and annotate.