About this archive. The original blog ran on WordPress and is gone — no export survived, and no copy exists in the Internet Archive. These 11 posts were rebuilt from the author's own working documents, so the writing is original and unedited, but the old design and any images could not be recovered. Post titles were not preserved either; each entry is headed by its date instead.
Dates marked approx. are inferred from manuscript word counts referenced in the text. The 2016 dates are confirmed twice over — each post names its own weekday, and the source files sat in dated archive folders.