Overthinking About What I Want This Site to Be and Other (Mis)Adventures in Mental Drainage

A cold rain is about to fall. Had hoped to get my running routine back to normal today but it looks like that's not going to happen: elliptical and PEAKY BLINDERS series five and yoga it shall be – I wany my blood sugar back to normal but not at the cost of pneumonia. But hey, I fixed a pair of K's broken reading glasses: househusband powers – activate.

Back and forth and back and forth from just posting here and ignoring the media social, to finding some point to the whole thing. Goldilocksing: tried out self-hosted options like Micro.Blog – which I love, in concept, but can't quite wrap my head around in personal utility (that it's billed as NOT a silo might be the problem; I think that's what I need more than anything) – or just posting smaller pieces throughout the day. Or, do I stick to just these daily pieces and the weekly newsletter?

(For instance: would yesterday's 280-character tweet about The Jorkie been better served as a tiny post here and then syndicated out to the networks?)

The question, then: do I want to be online more, less, or more (or less) selectively? I don't particularly care enough to actively avoid social media nor do I have some idealistic viewpoint of it (I loathe Facebook and all of its properties not just because it's a corrosive shopvac for big data, but because it's such a shitty platform for self-expression); it's a tool, and that's it. Problem is, I'm just not – at present – sure what it's a tool for. Random spewings? (see note above) Sharing links? (Mem: how to integrate Pinboard and my Impeachment Scrapbook here? Is there a way to automate?) Dog Pictures? ... If the intent of Twitter et al is to be a blank slate for self-expression, maybe I just currently lack the blankness to express myself on any slate – except in this little reclusive garden...

Further: best way to share music I enjoy? Dog pictures? Maybe best just to save all of those great things for the newsletter or for a morning piece. Or maybe, since I'm working in the evenings now and using a half hour in the middle of the two-hour block to write other stuff, I can start backlog of content to be syndicated here?

Incidentally, some great music: LIVING SPACE, by ELEH; NO HOME RECORD, by Kim Gordon; SLEEPMOSS, by Meemo Comma; and Michael Kiwanuka's latest, KIWANUKA.

While I've no interest in being dogmatic about the whole thing, the notion of all of my self-created online content living here before being syndicated out to the social tubes, is intriguing. Just have to create a platform or a workflow of multiple platforms that satisfies both my predilections of ownership and of flexiblity.

But, hell, I don't know; I'm just talking to myself about the whole thing. Time to read; the dogs are waiting, sorta patiently.