Welcome to Blaugust, and the day one post here for the event. If you know me, then this whole post will just feel like a redundant sort of trip down memory lane. But that’s what I do I guess. Wax nostalgia at things of the past.
Maybe? I really don’t know anymore. I just kind of, write what comes to mind.
Nostalgia is such a vicious creature, another way to say that you fear the future.
— Work of Fiction by Lauren Mayberry
I just love that quote from that song. Anyway, I don’t have a plan, I rarely do anymore, in general, that’s just kind of a larger… thing… I’m not getting into all that. Instead I’m just going to get to the Introduction part. It’s easy, because I’ve done it numerous times before, on lots of version of blogs.
Because I’ve been “Blogging” for a long time. Like a loooong time. Even when I didn’t really know it was called Blogging. Back in the days of the late 90s I had a Geo-cities website called The Chaos Xone. It was essentially a blog, built in HTML, manually updated. Even then, Blogging is just a fancy name for writing really. I’m banging this out here in Joplin, which tells me I effectively “Blogged” 900 times from 2000-2009. That’s not even including LiveJournal or Twitter, which are all off in their own archives.
At some point, The Chaos Xone transformed and rebranded as Lameazoid.com, and I’ve mostly been here ever since. I’ve spun off and reabsorbed dozens of other blogs. Blogs about writing (Pen to Paper, Snapshot of the Mind), blogs where I post snarky stupid bull shit (LiveJournal, My Blarg!), blogs about toys only (Ready Set Geek), blogs about shitty political hot takes (Opinion states As Fact). More recently killed was Blogging Intensifies, an experiment in slotting off my personal stuff from my hobbies. But in the end, I barely have the time or motivation these days to support one blog, so it’s all here again, at Lameazoid.com.
Probably a hundred each or more “Reviews” of various quality of Toys and Video Games. I used to say the split was nerd topics vs Geek topics. But it’s all just the same.
I suppose enough about the blogs, ho am I? I am Ramen Junkie, I’ve been Ramen Junkie for more of my life than I have not been Ramen Junkie. Think about that one for a bit, you’ll get it. I’ve been Ramen Junkie almost as long as I’ve been blogging. there was a brief stint before hand where I was Lord Chaos. But that became boring and I wanted a new handle for the Usenet days, and that’s when I became Ramen Junkie.
I am a lot of things, probably too many things, because I have an avid interest in, basically everything. Basically Jack of all Trades type. I play games, I collect toys, I love music, I try to cook stuff and garden, I am a dad to 3 adult kids, and have been married for almost 20 years now, I work in It related to cable and television. I code and play with computers as a hobby.
A lot of this ultimately feeds what is my secret primary “hobby” of writing. I just, like to write, even if no one ever reads it, which I’m not sure they even ever do.
I also am bad at coming up with ends for blog posts.
