Why do I have a blog?

Well the answer is simple, and the question is something I've posed for my own benefit: Quite simply, because I'll probably forget.

As a younger man (and I'm hardly old.. just middle aged), I had a great memory. I could recall details of conversations or stories for years. In my thirties, my memory stopped being quite so reliable. I could remember details from years before, but a lot of the details that were once retained went in one ear and out the other. Details of things I'd like to remember quite simply aren't there, or just aren't there when I want them. If and when they do resurface, I need to put some effort into repeating them over and over in my head until they stick.

I blame it on a whole lot of issues; sleep apnea, being an insomniac from a young age (coffee did not help), spending way too long on an understaffed IT service desk where for too long there was need for quantity rather than quality, so I was doing so much so quickly that it was impossible to remember any of it, and that's how my brain started to function. Then came the dad brain.. the go to work all day, support family, go to bed early in attempt to get a couple of hours sleep before the middle of the night wake ups from mini-me, whilst the exhausted XYL finally got as close to a break as mothers to new borns get... I don't get back to sleep easily, and for a while those handful of interruptions during the night led to learning to function on maybe 3 or 4 hours sleep (if I was lucky), and that assumed that mini-me slept from the time I went to bed until the time the XYL came to bed... unlike XYL who is quite capable of sleeping through world wars (as are her spawn), I cannot, and I did not.  I'm not at all complaining here - this just comes with the territory of being a parent. In hindsight, I wish I'd started a few years younger when I was healthier and in possession of far more energy. 

I started this blog not long after I started my journey into Ham radio. I'm notoriously bad at keeping blogs - I always have been. I expect this to be no different. It's for my own benefit as much as anyone elses, though obviously should I ever post something that gives someone an idea to try something different, to fix something, or somehow cause some kind of inspiration for any kind of academic, technical or other intellectual pursuit, then it's probably worth the cost of the domain name.

I moved this over to Blogger in December 2020. The posts were copied from my own hosted Wordpress blog (I do indeed run my own servers). I get sick of the issues with Wordpress; the constant updates, the bugs and the fact that I'm always stuck wondering whether the web server has wound up being compromised because of it. Dealing with that has an overhead - it's all "IT" time, to which I already allocated a good chunk dealing with my own IT environment. It's also a lot like being at work.

TL;DR - I'm probably going to wind up with Alzheimer's (or worse) when I get older. Memory is already shot. This way I get to remember what the hell I did, and maybe why. Assuming I remember to post.