I have this unproductive habit of abandoning things once I get them how I want them. Blogs, for example.

A few weeks ago I started this blog using Ghost. I finally found a theme I didn't hate, worked with its developer to tweak a few things, and started posting.

At about the same time, I spent a day or two refreshing my blog at daily.baty.net. The Tinderbox file I'd been using had become bogged down with stuff I didn't need. I started over with a brand new document and made it work exactly how I wanted. Two days later, I completely rebuilt it again, this time using Eleventy.

Now that coping mechanism was in good shape, I started looking at Baty.net. It was working fine. I don't love Hugo, but I'd gotten it to a point where things mostly did what they were supposed to. One day I had a small issue with Hugo, so I abandoned it and recreated the entire thing, also using Eleventy. Me and the robots wrote some helpful shell scripts to manage content, and I was off and posting.

Since baty.net was settled, I got bored and came back here to Ghost, where I'm writing this post for some reason.

See what I mean?

This also applies to other hobbies. One example: I bought an expensive setup for scanning film negatives with a mirrorless digital camera instead of using a flatbed scanner. It was fancy and worked really well, so of course I went back to using the flatbed. Now that fancy digital scanning setup is in storage.

I'm sure there are many more examples of this. I don't know why I do it. Maybe it's because if I had to stick with what I had, I'd actually need to do something with it. Nah, I'd rather start over.