The tedious work involved in digging up, sorting through and migrating all of that content, is done. It’s taken over a year to complete, via small sporadic bursts of focused effort. And as of today, the majority of my legacy writings, going back to 2006, are now fully resurrected.
It has been a great experience for me to go back through those posts. It’s been a reminder of numerous experiences, opinions, ideals and irritants, friends, family, and attempts at humor along the way. Between the two sites, there are over 500 posts restored in total. Leaving only a small handful (mostly inconsequential movie reviews) behind.
I still need to restore some missing images, update broken links and fix some formatting problems. But the main content is all back now, and that’s what really matters to me. I’ll eventually migrate any valuable Facebook posts over too because I’m no longer posting there unless it’s a link to something posted here.
My primary goal, at this point, is to continue to write. For the rest of my life. Because I love doing this.
Regarding the images of the pencil and pen used in this post. The pen is a photo I took of my father’s fountain pen, which I still have in my possession and will pass down to my kids as one of the few physical tangible artifacts I was able to obtain after his passing. I wrote more about it here. The pencil at the top of this blog was my own creation. The idea of a classic chewed up yellow pencil so well suited not just the dichotomy of the pen and the two blogs, but the nature of mulling over and chewing on so many thoughts and topics for so long. Although I did find the image online, the modifications, as subtle as they are, are clearly 100% my own doing. If you didn’t catch it than I succeeded in doing a great job of subliminal self-promotion. ;-)