I didn't mean to take a five-month hiatus from Tumblr.
As a matter of fact, I didn't take a five-month hiatus; I've still been active on my sideblogs. I've been reading my dash just about every day, and saved a lot of posts to reblog later. So from my perspective, I haven't been gone at all.
But I wanted to keep up my tradition of big posts for big round numbers, and life got in the way. Without going into the gory detail, my Mom's illness dragged out into a second year-long medical ordeal, which we never truly resolved but eventually got a technological solution to, which is almost as good. But that took a fifth hospitalization followed by a mad-dash to get her halfway self-sufficient before my employer's get-back-in-the-office deadline. We succeeded, and she says she's been doing well since I left, but my mental health was exceedingly unstable during that time, and it's taken a few months to regain sufficient composure to write this post to something vaguely resembling acceptable quality. (As it stands, I still feel like this isn't up to my usual standards.)
In the meantime, Tumblr has apparently been doing database updates, because my post-count has dropped not once, not twice, but thrice during the interim. I stopped at 29,999, but checking today it now only says 29,984. I'm treating this as post 30,000 for record-keeping purposes, anyway. A couple days' variation won't meaningfully affect the data.
(Yes, there's a Tumblr spreadsheet on my hard drive. Just because there's no money in something doesn't mean you can't be a professional about it.)
In all likelihood, I'll be using this site so long as it's still remotely usable. Last milestone post, nearly a year ago now, I mentioned taking a break from the Website Formerly Known As Twitter. That's more-or-less what happened. I still lurk a bit, but nothing like I used to. Tumblr remains a different story. As I've said before, you folks aren't getting rid of me that easily.
And I've got several months of material saved up to subject y'all to. The queue was long enough before I paused it, let alone now. (Not anywhere close to the queue limit, but closer to it then I think I've ever been.) I have some small sliver of not-quite-hope that my long 20s are finally coming to an end, and maybe, just maybe, I can finally make some progress on clearing out all those drafts. Expect to see a lot of that in the near future.
Uh, happy Labor Day?
