Ooof... this place has gotten quiet, huh?

Well, so the good news is... I'm not dead. Now the blog? Hmm... that one, honestly, I'm not sure.

I definitely planned on blogging more. I also planned on having more free time. I also planned on having a better time. None of those have come to be, and I've found myself without the time or the interest in blogging, to be honest.

That said, there's been more than enough worth blogging about. And I'm not ready to lay this little guy to rest just yet.

The Death of CmdJournal?

As you may recall, 'CmdJournal' is the official name of the blog software that I'm using (and writing) for this blog. I started writing it after I started blogging actually. It's most definitely a work in progress, and once-upon-a-time I planned on getting some major updates in before I started school back in August. Sadly, as the move to Michigan was complete ass, that never happened.

So I've got a blogging platform that is kind of janky.

On top of this, the client side software (the software on my computer used to interact with the blog) is written in a programming called Rust. I chose Rust because, as an electrical engineer it's becoming a pretty good language to know... and I figured I'd use CmdJournal as a vehicle for learning Rust.

Well... I guess maybe I'm not an electrical engineer anymore? I don't know. I'm getting a Data Science degree, so maybe I'm a data scientist now? Haha, I'm not sure yet, but what I do know, is that in the world of Data Science... the programming language 'Python' is king.

And, I don't really know Python. And, with my current workload, I can't imagine having time to learn Rust right now while I'm learning Python and a million Python-related tools that are used in the DS world.

All of this to say, that I don't know how much time I'll have to keep working on CmdJournal in the coming year or 2. On top of this, I think trying to keep blogging without the updates is going to make things difficult. For example, currently I can't edit a blog post that's too long, which has come to bite me in the ass several time.

Also, currently I don't have a way to easily add pictures, which has been a huge problem for a bunch of recent posts which really need pictures to do justice to the post.

Anyway, all of this to say... for now, if I am going to continue blogging I'm going to have to move to another blogging software platform. This, too, makes blogging in the near-future less likely.

So... is this goodbye?

Honestly? I don't know.

I guess we'll see.

I'm getting my ass kicked a little right now, and for all the wrong reasons.

If I can out from under this mess, maybe I can get back here and sort this out.

Fingers crossed, friends. Let's see if I can my shit together.