Five years is a while.
It's the longest time I've ever done one thing of mine and mine only, for starters. In a years time, it'll be the longest thing I've stuck at ever, including school.
And I'll be twenty four at the end of this month.
Not exactly a milestone, I'll admit. 25 might be, but 24 is just another number.
Five, however, is a different number. A rounder number. It's five years ago that I started Aquarionics, when it looked roughly like this and didn't work in the new Seamonkey thing that people were talking about. Five years since I was using Javascript for client-side includes, five years of crawling along the bleeding edge of web technology, dabbling in affiliate programs, programming, this new Weblogging thing people were talking about. It'd be nice to go out with a bang. An explosion of magnificent proportions, causing all the world to gaze as a bright star ignites the heavens one last time before falling dark.
I'm not going to do that, not this time.
I've been toying with closing the whole thing down. I do this every few months, either because I'm disillusioned with it, or with me, or with life in general. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. It never lasts for long.
This time is a little different, though. I haven't got time to do this right now, and this is a shame, because I'm on the upswing of a "I like doing this" cycle. I'm currently spending five hours a day travelling, eight working, eight sleeping and two keeping myself alive. This leaves an hour a day, which I mostly spend playing computer games, or doing something that doesn't involve typing. Weekends I just need to collapse. This does not leave time to keep this site going at the rate that I want it to, not in this form.
So, we either stop, put the site on hold for a few months while I learn to drive (Which will shoot the five hours traveling right out of the water, down to one single hour on a good day) and hope I can reform from these ashes later on, or drastically change how I do this. To stop being what it's always been, and become something else.
I've gone for the latter. You'll see what I mean. Meantime...
