I've started a few blogs over the years and all of them started with the simple idea to document and share my hobby progress. But rather than focusing on the small measures and musings of my own progress I would get swept up in the idea of audience. This in itself is not a bad thing, since the act of blogging (unless done privately) is a shared experience, but for me it oft became the driving reason which is where the inevitable distance and motivation eventually waned. And yet, at the same time I enjoyed the camaraderie, the digital connections and most of all the inspiration. In a life with so many distractions I admire those who are able to carve out time to focus on their hobby and then find further time to share it seemingly with the intent that their audience is quite simply, themselves.
As an afirmed Wargaming butterfly, whose geographical location results in a decided lack of opponents and for whom the focus is, for the next year, reduced to making small progress on the “lead pile” while also finalising many of the small, often terrain realted, project elements that always seem to remain incomplete, I am left to wonder, can I do the same? Can I focus on my own small steps, taking and acknowledging inspiration as it strikes, but with a focus on my own efforts and progress?
So this is “another” first post to simply serve as the digital journal equivalent to a programmers "hello world", and to mark another beginning. I’m still yet to fully decide the type of things I intend (at least at the journeys outset) to include here, instead this is a simple first musing as I play with the template and flex a little HTML and CSS knowledge while also contemplating possibilities.
anthony