============================================================================= Date: Sept. 28, 2019 Location: Small House, Upstate NY, Second Floor Mood: Many Moving Parts Spinning Music: Black Marble - It's Immaterial ============================================================================= My gophersite is finally up and running. All the initial files and structures are where I want them, and everything seems to be operational. The only part left to do is write this phlog post and update the gophermap of my phlog page. It took a lot longer to set everything up than I expected, but I finally have a spot here in gopherspace to post and discuss all the things I'm passionate about. Perhaps part of that time came from all the work I had to do in between working on the page. College classes, part-time at a grocery store, multiple car repairs, visiting relatives, myriad volunteering obligations, and now I'm working on this site. Hopefully it doesn't prove to be more than I can chew. It also raises the question of how much time I have for my creative endeavors. Over the summer I didn't have classes, so that left me with ample time to collect pieces for my poetry collection, typeset everything, and then publish it. After that I even spent a couple weeks composing and performing pieces for my ambient electronic album (Both of these projects can be found by browsing the various sections of my site). But now I have classes, and my schedule is busy enough that I can't even bring my car in for the repairs it needs unless it's a Saturday. I've been writing more pieces of poetry that I hope will eventually appear in another collection, and I've been sitting on some notes and outlines for a more longform fiction piece for months, with minimal progress. I can forsee these projects taking years for some reason, and that thought scares me a bit. I don't like the feeling of stagnation. Nevertheless, I've finally got the gophersite up and running. I have time to explore more of gopherspace, and push out content for it, too. I hope you enjoy what I create here in the future. Thanks. - Ben