Friends Post - no longer seven and a half years out of date
I was reliving my life the other day through LJ posts and then I realized... no one has commented on my old friends post in six years! It might have been because it was way out of date... or it might have been because I had most recently 'forward-dated' it to 2019 and now it's lost in the mists of time.
I could just make the post 'sticky' to make it the first thing everyone sees again, now that this is a thing, but... instead... it makes much more sense to make a new post.
One thing that hasn't changed since late 2015, though, is that my unlocked posts are still rare. Even though most of the time I still spend on LJ is to participate in one specific fandom community (if you're reading this, chances are you are/were a visitor there too)... my posting patterns look nothing like what they used to. These days, I try to post at least once every other month or so for the benefit of both my own eyes and others around me... especially since other options for this aren't great for me:
-Twitter was a great way to express my rawer emotion until the recent takeover
-My Facebook feed has way too broad an audience for most of what I want to say
-Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat, Tiktook... well, that's mostly for people significantly younger than me - right? What do you mean they aren't primarily for teenagers anymore? Next you'll try to tell me I was a teenager when I started this thing!
But, who am I - these days? If you go to my old intro post you'll get a good summary up to age 31 or so. I've now lived in Arlington (Virginia) for seven-plus years, including 4 1/2 years in my current apartment... but I've switched jobs twice since that intro post (same industry though)!
February 2020 was the month I switched jobs; in between the two I got to go on a true vacation in San Diego... but of course, then the pandemic hit and took my travel dreams with them. And even to this day I'm still being more cautious than most - cf my old 'secondary introduction post' (now re-updated for end of 2022!), especially part III for part of why I'm still so cautious.
The coolest thing I've done since, then, has got to be competitive memory training; reminding me of my old high school math competition days! I can close with the video on this page; while I didn't win, I had a pretty strong performance - and... well... fun memory stuff might show up in this blog on the future!
And finally, the last two items from my old intro post likely still apply here:
D) Those who want to learn what really makes me tick would probably do best by looking at my sorting questions tag and my Q&A tag (note that the ACTUAL name for the tag is in Finnish. ;))
E) For a more detailed read on some of the things that make me tick, go read this piece and this interview, though they may be a bit dated by now!