When I was in my late teens or so, we used to go around putting loftninjas.org stickers in odd places like in bathrooms on road trips across the country, in places you’d only see if you were shitting. I wondered if people would see them and contact me. No one ever did, but I still hear tale of people who knew about them seeing them randomly on cars around Maine.

As I ponder how to split all of my projects into their own spaces on the internet; blogs, and perhaps social media to follow, I’m thinking about domains. Ry recommended I follow Zed Shaw’s design of a blog + domain per topic.

M used to give me shit about holding on to loftninjas.org stickers. I remember her making comments about when I was going to take the sticker off my truck after we moved to Seattle. It disappeared one day and I assume due to her. Which you know, is pretty lame if that’s the case, but you know the way I am, I moved along. I recall another conversation with her about leaving that behind, that it was a tie to friends that she wanted me to get away from. In retrospect, it looks like that cliche movie plot about being pulled away from your friends to something fancy and losing what matters along the way. Yet, it didn’t end up being like that, not because of her though, but because of where I went.

As I’ve mentioned recently, growth is all that more interesting when you’ve got a number of periods to look back upon and the changes are less subtle. It’s harder to tell what’s the same than what’s different, as I sit in Seattle, listening to the chickens, getting ready to bike to work at a 350+ person company. Dad and his friend John used to say, “Who woulda thunk?”

Yet, on the wall I have a quote, “I’m going to make darn sure the world doesn’t change me.” by Pete Seegar. For everything external that’s changed, what has internally? I have a brief moment of sadness as I’m reminded by feeling so far away from everyone because of how I feel I’m so distant from people lately. Hmm. Work.