I'm Moving!

 

I'm moving! I am either moving out of here (blogspot) or moving into here (SubStack). If you are reading this, please update your link to go to the SubStack. I will try and publish both places for a bit. If you are reading this on SubStack, welcome to the new abode! I was looking for a new neighborhood for this blog for a little while. I have been using blogger/blogspot since before I met Jen. So, it's been something like twenty years. (I am SO OLD!) In that time the platform has made very few updates. It's a blog platform, right? Just how many improvements can one expect? In that time WordPress came along, and it looked like a pretty good platform until it tried to be everything to everyone and got overly complex for the average Mommy blogger. Maybe that's why blogger held steady. They had a minimal product that seemed to work (I've been using it this long!), and didn't see the need to mess with it and mess it up.

From the other end, the web hosts like GoDaddy and Wix made their site creation, no-code interfaces better to accommodate your average Mommy blogger and many others. I, though, still wasn't finding the right mix of a true blogging platform with the additional functionality that blogger now seems to stubbornly refuse to do. Blogger is like one of those really old GitHub projects that you stumble upon that still has some utility, but when you email the developer of it, they hardly recall even what you are talking about. (I realize only a fraction of my audience will get that reference.)

Then last night, like around two or three a.m. I was scrolling through things, per usual, ... Actually, I am determined to write the truth here (and in a bit of irony, I am listening to Jesus Christ Superstar and Carl Anderson just sang the line, "And they'll hurt you if they think you've lied."), the truth was I had been on pornhub and in the few moments of lucid thought that I had after was wondering just how much these women and couples are getting for creating content for pornhub. Not much it turns out. Seven cents (What ever happened to the cents sign on a keyboard?) per thousand views. Hey! Let these thousand strange men watch you have sex for two minutes, and we'll give you a nickel and two pennies!

Well, I had my white rabbit in my sights and had to follow him into the hole of just how much content creators make. I read how content creators keep 90% of their subscriptions on this thing called Substack. I had heard of Substack but didn't know anything about it really. I hadn't really looked into it -- "Substack" sounds too much like a site we use in software development called "Stack Overflow", and like a cola drinker loyal to my brand I really didn't even want to taste the competition. But the article also said that these content creators were mostly newsletter writers. Do people read newsletters still? In fact, Substack is a platform for blogs, vlogs, podcasts, and newsletters.

So I'm moving.

I'm also changing addresses. This truly isn't a way to avoid my upcoming jury duty, though if I can get things done before June (Update: It’s all taken care of, and I am officially a Floridian now!), that will be an added bonus. I'm "moving" to Cape Canaveral. First of all, the state of Colorado stole a ridiculous amount of money from me last year. (Taxation is theft!) Florida doesn't have state income tax. And guess what. They still have roads and schools and libraries down here.

Please don't email your arguments about why taxation isn't theft (except that it is almost exactly like theft in every meaningful way).

Second, my mental health is much better here than in Colorado. There are several reasons why I think this is the case, but one of them is that I simply “feel better” down here. Perhaps that is because it brings me back to my childhood and visiting my grandparents in Ft. Lauderdale. That was a time before bills and appointments and work!

“What about Jen?” I’ve been asked. Her father and boys and work, particularly the seniority, are all in Colorado yet. I don’t intend on seeing any less of her, though it may involve a little more back and forth travel. That is, if I even spend less time in Colorado when it really comes down to it. Personally, when we got the place down here, I had hoped for about a 60-40 split between Colorado and Florida. In reality, it was more like 80-20. I am hoping that I can do about 60-40 between Florida and Colorado, but it definitely won’t be 80-20 – Certainly not during the summer months! We’ll see how much our blood thins out! Maybe it ends up 60-40 in favor of Colorado anyway, because being away from Jen over the past couple months has been difficult. That said, I have certainly gotten a lot written! Look for more.