Dobes Zone

 I hadn't been on a proper trip since 2019, when I was in Australia visiting with family. This year my spouse and I felt safe enough making the drive down to Idaho to see my parents for Christmas since all of us are vaccinated and boostered. We usually make the drive every year with some scenic stops and an overnight stay in Fallon, Nevada. This year we wanted to take a different route to mix things up a bit (and avoid the horrible snow we encountered in previous years where the route took us into Oregon). This time we opted for a route that'd take us through Las Vegas and with an overnight stop in Ely, Nevada. It was a good choice, given that there was quite a bit of snowfall in Nevada and Idaho, and we got to see interesting new things along the way. Usually when we make the LA to Boise drive there's planned stops in little towns en route so that we can have a meal and and stretch our legs. This year was a bit different because neither of us felt safe with indoor dining (...

       Well, it feels funny to be back at an older sort of place like this. After deleting tumblr (rip) when its algorithms started flagging anything mildly peach-colored as "adult content", there wasn't really a space for me to blog. Instagram is nice in some ways, but it's more about pictures than words and has an algorithm that tends to favor frequent posting and especially videos. Twitter allows me to post some little blurbs and I do share my work and some hobby things there, but frankly the less time spent scrolling a timeline the better. Twitter is no longer really a space where I keep up with friends and see what they're doing, it's more an onslaught of news where everyone discusses the trending topic(s) of the day. There's staying informed and then there's whatever the hell Twitter is- a form of self harm, I think.     So I find myself returning to something more insular and traditional because I really missed having a space to talk about thing...