Well, I’ve taken the plunge and switched the front page of the site to the main Human Beams blog. That means that unless melonhead or Doc, or anyone else whose name is listed in the left menu, decides to post here, this blog is basically closed. There is an rss link to the new blog on the front page.

There are still a few kinks to work out, but so far, so good.

This really is a plunge for me. In my wacky brain there is somehow a difference between posting directly to the main page (or, really, only page for now) and pulling in a feed. I guess I feel more of a responsibility, a commitment now that it’s done. Weird.

I had planned to do this only after I had a regularly functioning computer, reliable internet access and plenty of quiet time to write. I have none of these things, but oh well. What’s that they say?

Leap - and the net will appear.

I’ve decided that the best plan - for me, for Human Beams - at this point in time, is to have no plan at all.

Not, of course, that I will not and do not have goals in the back of my mind, or a vision of where I want things to go, but… well, I don’t know. It’s not that it never works out, it’s just that I think I need to just let it be, for right now. Not the site, although I had almost decided to do that, as well… even had the little “see you on a better day or in a better year” type post written out, but still in drafts. I can’t recall what happened before I could click “publish”, but I was interrupted in some way and thought I’d just go ahead and let it simmer for a bit. I’m glad I did.

So, what’s going to happen? I’m not all that sure. I just feel I need to sort of “find my voice” again, as they say, writing about everything that seems to fit, and let whatever the site will be grow from that. I think it will be a stronger, more focused site that way. Or, maybe it’ll just stay a blog, whatever - no pressure!

The page itself is changed too, by the way. It has no links to the other parts of the site (all of the articles are still available directly and through the archives), so it will be just this page and, if others are still writing on it, Stalking Sunlight. arin (who needs to stay warm in 17 degree wind chill!) set this up for me a couple of months ago, but I didn’t access it till now. Also, for those who have Stalking Sunlight on rss, the address will be changing as I switch over to the main site blog - I am not sure of that rss address yet, will post when I figure it out.

This page may look a bit iffy from time to time as I play around with placement and stuff, but not to worry, it’ll all right itself (or I will yell for arin) eventually.

Anyway, I am doing a lot of writing these days, which is a good thing, between my personal blog (Serenity… an expedition) and my Black history/book writing blog (The Book of Louis) and now this one, and wonder of wonders I am looking forward to doing more of it. Having no plan may free me up enough of my brain to actually make one, but not just yet. 

Okay. Time to begin my non-plan plan.

Still fighting the cold here, snowed in by nearly 4 inches of snow! local buses not running, terrible!, local schools closed! how can we cope? so if I don’t post again, you know why, I’ll be dead from being unable to go shopping, starving to death!

I apparently have - quite accidentally - set it up so that, if I email something to myself from my Blackberry, it will post here.

I did attempt at one time to set up a “moblog” because it’s difficult for me to sign in and post, but it didn’t work.

Or so I thought.

Good thing I was just checking if my email was functioning properly and not sending state secrets (if I knew any) to myself.

Let’s see if this one shows up, too. If so, I will probably start posting more regularly again. Maybe.

Chk