… I bought the ohick.com domain.
I wasn’t sure what exactly I would do with it. In my journal, I just note the purchase in passing as “Amusing.” I liked the idea of saying, “Check me out at Oh Ick dot com.”
I still find it amusing, and I’m still not sure exactly what to do with it.
It took four years to buy the WordPress theme and get it ready to go. It took another half year to write my first actual post, the Fictionary term “escape goat.” And when I finally launched the site, it was mostly by mistake: I accidentally took the site off Maintenance mode to post my first video from Iceland from New Year’s Eve, and figured, What the hell? Leave it.
It’s been through a few phases, often with long gaps between them: some random politically commentary; occasional book reviews; a (failed) attempt to leverage it to encourage me to write more fiction; sort-of-working through a book on philosophy (the abandoned Notes and Thoughts on Pragmatism) or creative work (the intentionally abandoned Notes and Thoughts on The Practice.)
I have a couple short-term things in the works, some of which dovetail with YouTube. I wrote a long-ish short story that I recorded as an audiobook and hired a friend-and-former-student to animate; that should be done soon, and I’ll post things around that. And I’m messing around with guitars and recording, and have a few things I’d like to do with that.
But we’ll see what I follow through with. That’s the main rub. For someone who is almost obsessively completist — I had to leave most social media because I needed to see everything that had turned up in my feed since the last time I looked — I finish surprisingly few things. Still working through a fixed mindset, I suspect.
Here’s to another ten — perhaps with fewer long absences.
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