I started this over three years ago. It was a suggested exercise for a science communication course I was taking but I never did anything with it beyond setting it up. It is now 2021, I have finished the course and the world is in the midst of a pandemic.
Today I remembered this poor, abandoned little blog and decided to give it another go, it will give me somewhere to write between my bouts of at-home working during a second New Zealand lockdown. I can also learn about playing the serious blogging game as we go along.
When I set up this blog in 2018, I was teaching at university and trying to keep up with science communication assignments – we had an essay to write every couple of weeks – so I had little time for a project that
1) Did not contribute marks to my course and
2) I had little enthusiasm for.
Just to clarify Point 2:
I was 57 years old and although I had been using computers for work and fun for nearly 40 of those years I was old-fashioned (and arrogant?) enough to think that blogs were not for ‘real’ writers. A little ironic given that I had got into blogging in the early 2000s as one of the LiveJournal community. (Unfortunately I can no longer remember even my account name for LiveJournal, much less my password so all those journal entries are now nothing but digital archaeological relics.) So this nascent blog languished in digital limbo until today.
Today, this blog and I renew each other’s acquaintance and will try to journey together at least a little ways. Although the intention is for this to be a mostly science-oriented digital attic the odds are that I will digress at times. Forgive me if I do so, you are quite welcome to put it down to the cognitive waywardness of a not-quite-yet senior citizen who loves talking, and loves writing even more. And should you feel the urge to join Blog and I every now and then, you are very welcome to do so.
The Science Attic 