Black As My Soul: Making Progress

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October 30, 2006

Making Progress

Holy Crap…

Well, I've been editing old posts of late, as I mentioned earlier. And I've made substantial headway.

The reason for the editing is because I have moved this blog twice. For about the first year, none of my posts had titles. It was very stream-of-consciousness with only a time stamp and a byline to indicate a new post. I think I had a date divider as well.

I had that blog initially on Blogger, before blogger was purchased by Google and before there was a built-in commenting system. I've noticed that some of the posts pertain directly to comments I remember receiving, but I no longer have them as I was using a third-party commenting system. It might be possible to go back to that service and find the comments and reconstruct the feedback, but that is a project for another day. [A look a how it was in the beginning.]

Then I moved over to TypePad. I still have a placeholder site there, but it only points here. TypePad actually deletes all of your old pages when you close up shop there. I don't have anything to show regarding how that blog looked. It was a three column design, which was the basis for the look I have today.

I don't remember when I started having categories, whether it was on TypePad, or whether it was when I moved to MovableType on my own host, but hundreds and hundreds of entries now need to be retitled, because the import tool assumed the first line of the post was the title when I brought everything here. And then there's the whole category thing.

It was really hard to remember what I was thinking in a lot of cases, so most of them head into the "revealing" category. I use that as a sort of catch-all for revealing my thoughts. Especially when I blog things I would not say.

But it has been a trip, remembering my frame of mind when it comes back to me. Some of the old posts are really scary—like I-was-insane scary. Some of them are really sexy. And I ran across all kinds of Haikus I dashed off. Even some entries which were composed of nothing but paragraphs of Haiku.

I forgot about how prolific and creative I was. I hadn't realized how far I shut down when I went into "therapy" prior to my divorce.

I want it back.

I still have about four hundred posts to clean up. That's just in the period from mid-May through July of 2003.

[+] Posted by Sinner, who was transgressing at the time (October 30, 2006 8:25 AM) by creating evil. [+]