"Back to You"

Thursday, January 28, 2021

As introduced in yesterday's post, I'm on the verge of releasing my new theme for this website. It's beginning to really feel like the websites I once knew. I broke away from the idea of a dark website since I've labored with a Retrowave style for years, though I did go so far as to capture the hex color codes from a "Wake up, Neo" screen capture. No, today, it's a white background all the way for me, to the contempt of my eyes.

I'm now left to consider whether I want that blessed Web 1.0 look or should I adopt a MLA vibe? Ultimately, the decision rests on whether I can go back to a serif body font. My astigmatism likely will have something to say at the meeting.

One delightful aspect of making a major break from my theme, is that I feel empowered to write more. In these recent years, especially 2020, I chose to basically write about my personal fitness, i.e. diet & exercise. Without more formal knowledge, I've pretty much exhausted the subject.

And as I remain injured, I'm not exactly generating new content over here! I've now got this weird thing on the same arm as my injured left elbow that I can only describe as a sudden, sharp grip on my tricep near my shoulder. Sometimes, it occurs when I stretch my arm over my head or cross it along my body, like an inside block in Taekwondo. There's gotta be some sort of correlation with the elbow, though again, I feel it in my tricep very close to my posterior delt.

Maybe it's time to write more on...well, ANYTHING, not unlike when I was younger—I'm still that guy, I've just become more guarded over the years. I think, too, that I wanted to maintain a speaker that was somewhat constant, or perhaps it can be better states as consistent. I wanted to be perfect...

But, friends, I am not a Cylon—at least not from the same make as the older, toaster models. I reserve the right to change my mind, as the weight values of information shift. It's how I've crossed the great plains as a vegan to become a carnivore. Or, how I've evolved from championing Arminianism to humbling myself to Calvinism.

And I didn't become a Memphis Tigers fan because blue is a superior color to orange!

I make mistakes. I say dumb things. I've got callouses to show for all the times I've kicked myself. The other day, I heard this quote from Dustin Poirer after his second fight with Conor Mcgregor:

I like that. I make mistakes and like a George Strait song, I sang, "I like to have that one back" for more situations that I'd care to admit. But, I move on as I Restore, Retrofit and Retrowave across 2021.