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As you can see, Everything is Oll Korrect! has a new look. When I migrated from WordPress to Hugo in early 2024, I went with the Mainroad theme because it was good enough and didn’t require much configuration. I had enough on my hands with the migration, and didn’t want to spend a lot of time finagling with the theme. Mainroad had the basic layout I wanted, most of the features, and looked decent, if a bit plain.

I’m not even going to acknowledge it.

In 2023’s year in review post I predicted that “2024 is gonna be lit, boys.” It sure was, but mostly in good ways. My family has grown by one, my career change has proven to be a good decision, and Everything is Oll Korrect! has started showing a pulse again.

So, as I mentioned in “So Long, WordPress!”, when I first migrated this site from WordPress to the Hugo framework I initially carried over only some of the posts, I’d say perhaps 1/4 of them. I planned to bring over most of the rest, but it was urgent enough to get off of WP’s sinking ship that I decided it was worth migrating even if not everything was ready. As of April 14, though, everything has been edited and republished.

So, as you can see, Everything is Oll Korrect! got a makeover. In short, I got tired of WordPress’s nonsense, and converted the blog to a static site using the Hugo framework. There’s still work to do, primarily in editing and republishing about 60% of my old posts, and the styling could also use some touching up. However, WordPress has become so unstable that I decided it’s best to get off that software as soon as I had something halfway presentable.

So what’s happened on Everything is Oll Korrect! in 2023? Well, looks like I wrote four posts this year, three of them in the last few months. You can take the timing as a good sign - my schedule has lightened up a bit, meaning that, while this blog won’t be on, say, a weekly schedule any time soon, I should be able to manage somewhat regular updates, perhaps monthly or so. Two of those posts happened to be about children’s books, which gives some indication of what I’ve been mostly reading lately. One, which I think was the best of the year, on children’s books generally, and one on Dr. Seuss in particular.

Dead blog, lol.

This blog isn’t abandoned, though it’s only barely qualifies as active. At the very least, it’s not so dead that I’m not writing my annual year-end post, even if it is 5:08pm on December 31. That lack of activity is due almost entirely to a lack of time; other things are, ultimately, more important, and my free time lately has been spent mostly on family history.

Uh… I wrote five posts this year. I’m not even going to compare it to previous years. What in tarnation? What was I doing this year?

It’s the end of the year, and now that the reminiscing and navel-gazing is over it’s time for the most important year-end festivity, looking at how many books I read. In 2018 I read thirty-six, compared to 2017’s forty-two. This year, I have twenty-nine books recorded in LibraryThing, but this excludes eight volumes of Toriyama Akira’s DragonballZ because they’re part of a box set and so, from LibraryThing’s perspective, are only one book. There’s also The Bowl of Tears and Solace, which isn’t in their catalogue at all last I checked. That brings us up to a more typical thirty-eight, two more than last year.