I myself had some major mental health challenges, a lot of which I blogged about, but there came a time when the effort was just too much. I stopped in November 2020. Five years ago. I started back up again last week.
Diary of a Low Budget Superhero was launched in 1999. It had a different name then: Jungle Sweet Jungle. I named it that as a reference to the book Welcome to the Jungle: The Why Behind "Generation X" by Geoffrey T Holtz. You see, it was to be a GEN X blog. Of course, this was before they were called blogs. It was just an online diary. I thought I'd write about my life, for 20 years, and at the end of 20 years, I'd see how an ordinary, un-spectacular Gen X'er had it all turn out.
I started on Diaryland.com, went briefly to Livejournal, I feel like I wrote a few entries on Tumbler, and ultimately landed at Blogger. I've been happiest at Blogger. So here I still am.
All entries are available. All the way back to 1999.
Well, the reason I ask why you stopped blogging is this: I spent some time on Diary of a Low Budget Superhero over the last week. One of the things I want to add to my Layout, that I used to have on here, is what we used to call a blogroll. A list of other blogs we like to read. So I checked it out, looking for all my friends' blogs. And they're all abandoned, having old entries but nothing recent.
So...how come?
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UPDATE! Sept 27th
YOU GUYS. Guess what? I spent some time yesterday continuing what I'd been trying to do: link some cool blogs in Diary of a Low Budget Superhero. I found a ton of them! In Blogger, a few Wordpress, even some Substack. (I learned that LiveJournal has been sold to Russia, whaaaaat? No thank you.) This is so heartening! People were saying (I asked on Facebook) that the blog is a thing of the past. Old school. Done away with in favor of social media. NOPE. So I linked to some I would love to read daily, under "Other Cool Blogs." Check 'em out!
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