[[2026 Cafe Posts#^172725|2026 Cafe Posts]] I’ve been quite happy with [[Taniyn Quest]] as whole. It’s the most consistent space I’ve ever done my writing in, and working on it through [[Obsidian]] is super easy and convenient. But I’ve come to realize that my writing has shifted way too far to one end and less the other. Specifically, pretty much all I’ve been doing is writing about media or some random philosophical topic I’ve been thinking about. I haven’t really *blogged* in an eternity, which is kind of a bummer. Soooo I’m trying to fix that with this little corner of the site, where I can just blog like humans used to (and hopefully still) do. Anyways while I was thinking about the personal act of blogging again, I simultaneously lamented the state of blogging as it currently stands. What initially started as a way to journal has simply become a way to drive rank on Google SEO. Have you ever even looked up the words “how to start a blog”? Holy *shit* it’s depressing. You can’t find anything that isn’t related to monetizing your blog and making sure it’s as close to the top of the search page as possible. The worst word in the world, “content” appears everywhere. And now it’s filled with articles on how to use “AI” to do the writing for you…I’ve written about why you should [[Express Yourself With Writing|express yourself with writing]], and I feel like that’s only become more important since I first talked about it. So you know, if you haven’t started your blog yet, get on that, and then send it to me. I’ve had a lot of time to write, and also do pretty much anything, given my recent layoff. It’s been nice to not have to worry about or think about being “productive,” to be honest. I haven’t gotten to wake up and simply think, “what do I want to do today?” since I was in high school, which definitely wasn’t an incredibly long time ago, of course. It nagged at me at first, but I’ve worked to embrace it. Especially because I’ll be back to the rat race soon enough. Why not enjoy it until then? I’m back in the gym with regularity, I’ve been working on the latest draft of the story I’ve been working on (and off, and on, and off…) for the past few years. I’ve even begun to chip away at the mountain of nanoblocks that I keep buying and not starting. Yesterday I went outside for no reason in particular — again, something I haven’t done in ages. I touched grass, window-shopped. It was nice. I used to convince myself that I’m not “supposed” to do things like this because I’m meant to be a particular kind of way. Shedding that feeling in my 30s has been a nice change of pace, even if it means that I now see white hairs in my beard now and then.[^1] What else, what else…oh, I’ve gotten into gamification to get me to do things again, lol. The latest experiment has been [Tap Tap Loot](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3959890/Tap_Tap_Loot/). Desktop apps like this and **Fish to Dish: Idle Sushi** have been a godsend for my ADHD (although I found the latter to be a bit *too* involved, which is why I’m trying out **Tap Tap Loot** now). Man, how do you end a blog post that technically doesn’t have a point to it. Uh…flameo, hotman. [^1]: I don’t really care about this either by the way, it’s just funny to joke about