A long time a go, in a neighborhood far, far away–well, actually it was specifically this neighborhood, but it really was a long time ago–I purchased the Simonshire URL. I had big plans when I bought it. I was going to post a bunch of content on the house, and show home improvement projects as they were done. I had big, ambitious plans. But I am a small person, and big plans overwhelm me, so I let the site sit.
As time passed, I purchased a drone, and started making videos–one of which highlighted Simonshire. Whenever people asked about the hobbit-hole that I live in, I would tell them to do a search on YouTube for Simonshire. I would also mention that I had purchased the website, but hadn’t done anything with it yet. After one of these conversations, for whatever reason, I decided to bring Simonshire live. I didn’t do much–I just threw the video I told everyone to watch onto the front page and auto-imported blogs from the various blogging sites I’ve used over the years. None of these sites had many blogs and the ones that actually had interesting content I either couldn’t find or they didn’t import correctly. However, my goal was to post the video, and I had accomplished that. Nobody was really going to visit the site, anyway.
And then the word started to spread. Not far and wide, but people I hadn’t told about the site started to pop in to see our little hobbit-hole. Some even read my previous blog posts (which, like this one, really had no content). I started to feel a bit self-conscious about what the place looked like. People were coming over, and not only had I not washed the dishes, I hadn’t even put out the furniture.
So today, I am slowly starting to build the site. I’ve imported posts from other blogging sites that were not able to be auto-imported. I know that I have another site blog site that I haven’t found that has quite a few posts from international travel that I have done. I’ll attempt to find those entries as well, and put them here. Moving forward, you may start to see more posts going in, dated both before and after this post. The earlier ones will have more interesting content, since they include travel, whereas now we cannot even leave the house. However, I was once a smart and creative lad, and maybe I can come up with some kind of content that might be worth looking at for those people who really know me and are interested in what I am doing. Hmm, nope. I’ll be the only one reading this.