Not abandoned after all.

I'd fallen in love with Wordpress, but now, the thrill, as they say, is gone.

After much talk and deliberation, I've started an Etsy site for my knitted goods, and decided that a new blog would be in order. I had previously bought the CSS extension for my (now much neglected) Wordpress blog, but discovered that, lo and behold, this was not something that would cover any blog I created, but just the one. So, with no extra fundage to have the flexibility I'd prefer, I started my new knitting blog here.

In fact, I've started two.

The first is Fanknitics, which coincides with the Etsy shop of the same name, devoted to knitting all manner of geeky things.

The second is Jo's Crafts, also with similarly named Etsy site, which was what I started out with, before I had the actually creative name that JT came up with for the geek side of my knitting night gig. I'll still be using these, but for any creations that aren't particularly geeky. It will be, in all likelihood, a bunch of cute baby things, recycled yarn/plarn and the occasional set of stitch markers.

So, since I'm around Blogger anyway, there might actually be some sort of updating going on around here. Consider yourself warned.

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Of all my talents, I think I'm most practiced at spreading myself thin. Between the people in my life, the job, serious reading and self-examination, my time at the computer is relatively limited these days. Of course, once I sit down, I have email to check, which usually brings message board or Facebook notifications, and one person or another has sent something YouTube-ish for me to look at. Then there's blogs to read, communities to visit or games to play. And always, there is the ubiquitous Google Reader, just in case I don't have anything else to d
And, somewhere in there, I blog. In four different places. No wonder I can't keep up.

They're all to different purposes, though. Which is the sensible part of all this.

• I keep a space on Nightgig for whatever web projects I want to show off, and for whatever general geekiness I feel like sharing.
• There's the LiveJournal, which ends up getting more venting than the rest, although they're all friends-only or private.
• I have a feminist blog as well, for explorations into feminist thought, and dealing with some tougher issues, some of them personal.

Then, there's here, the blog with no stated purpose. It's the oldest, longest running blog, and I can't quite bring myself to abandon it. It shows where I came from, where I started with this thing, and has a lot of my history in it. As of February I will have spent seven years of my life variously updating, designing, ignoring and re-designing this site. And I'm back again, after ignoring it for the better part of a year.

Worth keeping, even if I don't have a purpose for it (yet). Perhaps I can use a little pointless space.