Saturday, July 01, 2023

It's Been A While. And It's About That Time I Came Out...

 ...of this long, hard, dark period of not updating this blog/personal website, silly!

Although I do have plans to catch y'all up on what has been going on with my life since the last time I posted anything here (like, back in 2017); there's just a few things that I want to mention, now that it is 2023:

  • I did update a few things on this site between 2017 and now. But it was the "Books I Read (or have read)" sidebar that I updated, not the main blog itself. It was in 2020, when I added the books "Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions by Alcoholics Anonymous." and "Narcotics Anonymous - Sixth Edition." Definitely more on this later.
  • I am well-aware of who my readers are, thanks to StatCounter and the very few folks to whom I have given the website address. Having said that, even though this blog serves as an outlet where I can speak my mind, there are other blogs and journals online which I use for my more outspoken, uncensored ranting and venting. More on this later.
  • My Twitter sidebar is indeed up to date, and it never failed to update this blog under the radars of RSS feeds and what have you.
  • Many of my past entries will be removed from public availability, simply because the information shared in those entries are outdated and could possibly be interpreted as misleading.
  • The idea of pointing the callmeroger.com domain name and moving to a personally hosted blog powered by WordPress still lingers in my mind until this day. But when that day comes, every single post from here on Blogger will be moved there. Comments will remain here. 
  • This site operates as both a public front (the tip of the iceberg), and a private installation of secret pages that are only viewable by select individuals to whom I have given access. 
  • The username "callmeroger" is not mine, and there are plenty of others who have beaten me to the punch, depending on the social media platform where the username is being used. But there are now a few notable social media platforms where I have resorted to using the username "callmeroger.com" instead, which I assume could potentially lead other people to visit this website out of curiosity. More on this later. 
  • Blog updates will include posts about my return to Package Express, posts from BuJo DoJo (my handwritten journal), Project Centre, and Misery City to name a few. 
Changes are coming to this blog, as I am mustering the courage and the motivation to start blogging again. There are plenty of stories and thoughts which I would like to share on this blog. But for those who are reading this, sorry for the boring update. Just know that more updates are coming and they are probably going to be even more boring than this post. :p