We will ignore the sub-topic of me really wanting to do that as of late.

So, I have decided. I was going to get a new domain, and I still might, but I am resurrecting Hermit Dave. HermitDave existed sometime around 1998-1999, Ottawa and/or Edmonton. He existed as a sub-section of my friend's site Ndroid. "Ask HermitDave" went by the phrase, "No job, no friends, no life. Addicted to Coca-Cola. Who better to ask for advice?" It was how I felt being in self-exile and obsessed with finding meaningful work. I am sort of feeling that way again, in self-exile, very isolated from people I know and especially "myself" -- whatever that means. The main thing is that I have the "Dad would be proud" job. Guys at 40 shouldn't be worrying what their Dad would say about their state of employment but I have invested over a decade in that feeling so it's not going away anytime soon. That combined with Marmy working weekends while I finally have them off along with the accumulated stress of the wasted last 5 or 6 years (ummm, how about 20 ?) has me deep deep inside my head. Thisboyistoast was supposed to be a light touch, an escapist blog of link-loving and pop culture references. The dark recesses inside HermitDave's head are not for the blog.

So, I will not shut down TBIT but just add the layer of HermitDave onto the site. Or, once the dust is settled, move the fucker over to his own domain. I also intend on using the clean slate, empty page or empty DIV tag as a chance to re-learn web & design skills. First up? CSS. Kind of like I enjoyed watching Ed do, I will play with CSS and re-do the site time after time after time until a real design emerges. But all with learning in mind. Sure, I have said this before but since this has nothing to do with learning a skill for work, it shouldn't have self-imposed procrastination. I don't do ANYTHING at work that has to do with webpages so it shouldn't interfere.

Part of the realization for this was not only the re-opening of the HermitDave mindset but the more practical return to open blogging, not all categorized and minimized. I don't want to reformat the existing structure of TBIT or exile the current ones to Archives, like I did the blogger days, but I don't want to use the current style. Simple, limited categories are my current idea. There will still be QuickLinks of a sort but no categorization of them. The main categories should be Personal, Movies, Comics, Gaming and some more not set in stone. Time to have a voice again.

When? As always.... soon. May 11 08