February 29th, 2024

Day one of learning how to use neocities! I've always liked the idea of having a little virtual journal and I'd like to track my progress with designing this site, so that's what this page is going to be. Let me tell you a little about myself!

You can call me Acht. I'm a huge comic book and video game nerd from a city near the ocean, but I somehow found myself working as a naturalist and educator in a remote tourist destination that's almost nothing but wilderness for miles and miles. Despite how beautiful and beloved the place where I live and work is, for a variety of reasons I have become massively disillusioned with it. I love nature, but I'm sick to death of being so far away from my family and the rest of the world! As much as my workplace talks about innovation and listening to new ideas, they are uncurious about technology to put it lightly. The town I live in was created by tourism, and the vast majority of the people I see on any given day are either tourists or people who work in the tourism industry. I literally cannot escape my job.

In a way, this page is a sort of rebellion against the situation I find myself in. My workplace won't innovate, so I want to try something new myself! The agency I work for is extremely restrictive and won't let me talk about most aspects of my job (where I spend 9.5 hours of my life nearly every day), so I'll just do it in a place they'll never think to look! I feel trapped, so while I'm waiting to find another job and get the hell out of here, I'll carve out a place on the internet that's just for me!

Ideally, I'd like to make this a spot where I can talk about and collect the stuff I'm passionate about without putting my face on it or exposing myself to a larger social media ecosystem. I have pretty bad ADHD so no idea if I'm gonna be able to stick with it, but here's hoping!