I’ve run a weblog for several years now. It has been a different blog every few years, changing as I mature my way through life. My current site, warpedvisions has been fun, but I’m not sure it’s worth the effort.

It’s not the blogging that I’m thinking of getting out of, rather it’s the hosting and site maintenance that seems to be a bit of a time-sink. Not to mention the cost of hosting, domains, and all of the other related bits. The cost isn’t out-of-band where the budget is concerned, but it just doesn’t make sense as I don’t enjoy that part of the blogging. It’s funny too, I fled the automated tools a couple of years back in search of more control over the site. Full circle, I guess.

So why pay for the luxury of managing the nuts and bolts of a web site? I’m really hoping that TypePad is reasonably priced … as it would allow me to write without the burden of keeping it all going. Even if it’s not within my frugal range, I could survive on one of the other less-involved services. It’s about the writing anyway.

And that’s the interesting thing I’ve discovered in my years of blogging. It is the writing I love. I mean I really love to write; the process of smearing my cranium across the page is great. Not that many people have ever read my stuff with any regularity, that’s not the point anyway. I’m not yet sure what it is about writing that I’m digging, but that doesn’t matter yet as it’s just cool to find stuff I love to do.