Another phlog. Probably nothing special, but it's important to me.

I spend my time online lurking - I don't generally contribute content, or if I do I'm 
very careful to make it perfect, to me. I don't like the idea of someone googling my 
name and finding half-finished projects, personal posts, etc. I'm not obsessed with 
privacy or anything, nor do I have some vendetta against Google or Facebook or the like 
finding out everything about me. I just don't like to share so much.

So here I am. Posting on an underground protocol where nobody will connect me with my 
words. I don't have any powerful statements to make, I just want to share myself 
somewhere, and I chose here. You don't have to read what I write, either. Just writing 
it is enough for me.

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I like text-based interfaces. After reading a lot of content around here it seems I'm 
not alone in that, nor my disdain for the modern web. I'm in my 20s, so I remember the 
internet from my childhood but not "the birth of the web" or anything, so I don't have 
a nostalgia for a time long ago. I just think it's wrong to have to have an ad blocker 
to be able to read content on the web, or having to dig to find any original 
information, or seeing so many posts that just... don't matter. To me, or, I imagine, 
anyone. I don't like reading the news anymore, so once I stopped... What else is there  
to read online? I follow some forums here and there, and use a few web sites that offer 
unique services, but nothing that takes up all day online, like it used to. Just things 
I use here and there.

The web is useful. I consider it essential. But it's a bit much sometimes. It feels 
good to log in here and just instantly open up real content. Even if it's just people 
talking about their feelings (like I am), it just feels so refreshing. My ultimate 
dream is to take those websites I do use and make some kind of text interface for them. 
I know there's Lynx and the like, but it just feels so much better to use software that 
I write myself, even if it's got issues, which it always does.

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I went to an outdoor expo yesterday. There was a booth on falconry. I don't hunt, but 
the idea of having a bird companion in real life makes me want to.

I have a lot of interests, so I have a hard time picking up a new hobby/point of 
research without dropping something else. My calendar is my essential companion in 
this. I set reminders for dates in the future when I think I might have time or the 
resources to do things. I love when I get these strange reminders, and try to remember 
when I set them. Yesterday my phone buzzed and I had a reminder - "Buy a bike?" I 
smiled, but had to dismiss it for later. I have nowhere to put a bike right now, but I 
might soon.

I set a reminder for April 18th to re-evaluate if I can start to explore 
Falconry.