It's later than you think

 More than three years have passed since I posted here.  Metafilter has a post encouraging people to start a blog so I felt encouraged to remember I had this one.  I could claim that the pandemic kept me away this long but it's actually the lack of audience.  An audience would scare me so I am lucky not to have one but writing for nobody isn't exactly a compelling activity.  I could post the link on Metafilter and a few people would show up (though they wouldn't comment so I would never really know) but I repeatedly discover that those (Mefi) people aren't my target audience.  I used to think that was my fault for no appealing to them but no longer do.  It's just how it is..  So far, I am the only reliable audience for what I write.  I think I'll take this opportunity to go back and read (and appreciate) what I'd written in those previous years.

The title comes from an old (older than me) song that goes "Enjoy yourself--it's later than you think."  (It turns out I am actually a few years older than the song.)  I originally meant it to indicate that much time had passed since my previous post but now I think I was suggesting that I might risk having actual readers.