A return to the written word

After two and a half years of no activity on this platform*, I've decided I'm going to try to start writing again with some regularity and purpose. During the intervening months, I have neglected comment moderation, content production, and purpose of blog. I also have lost track of the photography aspect of this blog, which means most of the old pictures I've taken and posted over the years are lost to whatever hosting they had previously lived on; I'll end up deleting those posts, which will take me a while to sort through. That's a bit of a bummer, but it does create a neat opportunity to start revisiting the last 13 years of digital photo archives and occasionally posting a look back and giving me the opportunity to ruminate on the circumstances of individual photos in ways I would not have otherwise done.

Blessings in disguise and all that.

So what's ahead? 

First, I have to post the diagnostics and analysis I did for my Ampeg SVT-III Pro (1995 model, hence III instead of 3) and what I ended up doing to repair it. I need to post some thoughts on the 5F1 "clone" I made. I have to talk about the repairs I did on the Tektronix 317 oscilloscope I repaired back in 2018, and the Tek 465 I got and refurbished before that. I will probably have a little bit to talk about the Tek 2336 I had for a while, because it was fun and because I had to commission some 3D printed latch parts to get it to stay closed.

I also have had a LOT of health experience and can write your eyes out with thoughts about dealing with thyroid cancer for six nonstop years.

I'm going to largely stay away from politics, but I may have to write some things on current events involving people who look like me doing reprehensible, racist things.

I may have thoughts and observations about biology. I probably will have thoughts about climate. I love some of the biodiversity we have around here and will be sad to see it go when climate change comes to reclaim the earth from us. I really do like spending time outside and watching the butterflies and moths, and then it's on when it's millipede season here.

Finally, you may also end up getting some thoughts on music, music production, and my limited understanding of music theory. It's what I end up doing a lot of ongoing learning about, so here we are: an outlet.

You may be wondering "why?" if you're reading this. I am currently dealing with a complication from surgery that's left me without much of a voice. It's not as bad as it was when this last happened in 2013, but I still find myself yearning to produce "new" thought and information. Hopefully, a keyboard will work to scratch that itch, as posting to blogger is a lot cheaper than buying a ton of music hardware and writing music nobody will listen to because most people seem to dislike tracks without lyrics. I'm sure not in a place I can sing right now, so saving money it is. So, with that, I'm back.

* - There's a reason I called this place "the content vortex" and it has everything to do with my personal history of forgetting to update it or pay attention to it for months at a time. I just usually do better than two and a half years.