Okay, here’s my attempt at a blog post mimicking the style and structure of your example, focusing on the title “January 2008”:
So, January 2008. Man, that feels like a lifetime ago, doesn’t it? I was messing around with… well, a whole bunch of stuff, to be honest. It was one of those months where I just had a ton of random ideas and wanted to try everything.
The Photo Project
First, I started this photo project. I had this old digital camera, nothing fancy, and I thought, “Why not take a picture of the same thing every day?”. Sounds simple, right? It turned out to be way harder than I expected.
- I picked this one spot in my backyard, near this old, kinda creepy-looking tree.
- Every single day, rain or shine, I went out there and snapped a photo.
- The lighting was always different. Some days it was super bright, others it was all gloomy and gray.
I kept all the photos in a folder on my computer. The folder got bigger and bigger. The idea was to eventually make a time-lapse video or something, but I never actually got around to it. Classic me, starting something and not finishing!
The Website Mess
Then there was the website. Oh boy. I decided I wanted to build my own website from scratch. Because, you know, why not? I didn’t know anything about coding, really. I mean, I dabbled a bit, but nothing serious.
I spent hours, I mean hours, reading tutorials online. It was all gibberish at first. HTML, CSS… what even was that stuff? Slowly, very slowly, I started to figure it out. I managed to put together some basic pages. Nothing pretty, mind you. Just plain text and a couple of really awful-looking images.
- Used Notepad. Yeah, just plain old Notepad.
- Copied and pasted code snippets from all over the place.
- Felt like a total genius when I finally got a background color to work. Small victories!
I never actually put the website online. It was that bad. But hey, I learned something, I guess. Mostly, I learned that building a website is way harder than it looks.
The Music Thing
And finally, there was the music. I had this cheap keyboard, and I got it into my head that I was going to write a song. A whole song! I fiddled around with the keys, trying to come up with something that sounded… well, good. It mostly sounded like a cat walking across the keyboard, to be honest.
I recorded some stuff on my computer, using this really basic audio program. I even tried to add some vocals. My singing voice is… not great. Let’s just leave it at that.
The “song” never saw the light of day, and I never finish it. It’s probably still buried somewhere on an old hard drive. Maybe one day I’ll find it and have a good laugh.
So yeah, that was my January 2008. A whole lot of starting things, not a whole lot of finishing. But hey, it was fun, right? And It was all part of learning.
