For a long time, my website maintenance has been taking what is actually broken and making it functional again, rather than worrying too much about content. With spare time and a functioning site, I’ve been able to go through my WordPress posts and discover some things. I had several posts, going all the way back to 2011 which were “Uncategorized.” All of them have homes in multiple categories now.
But even more fascinating, I had some posts which were written but never actually published. 31 Drafts, in fact, some of them dating back to 2008. Since I like those things to be seen, here are the seventeen that had enough content to publish, without having to scroll back through years and years of posts.
Some Random Photo Favorites was a post from June 2011 when I was spending the summer hosting Quito Quest teams. It had some great photos which were on my public Flickr page, but apparently I had some trouble with the formatting and although the content was all there, this post never came out of my drafts folder. It is posted now.
I had a Test post from the Apple Store which I did not actually publish, and instead just took a screenshot. But it was entertaining to see that one of the multi-pronged tests I did was logging into my own site and typing a post on an iPad- the first time I had ever even held one. This would have been around May 2o11, because I ended up purchasing an original iPad to blog in Ecuador in summer 2011, planning to sell it on eBay when I got home to the United States. I obviously got attached, because I have never not owned an iPad since. There was a similar draft of a test written from an iPod Touch, which I deleted.
Tolerance, the First Amendment, and Islam was something I wrote out of a sense of anger toward my former Representative, and on which I assume my 2010 self chose not to click “Publish”out of that same sense of anger. Well, 8 years is enough of a cooling-off period, and I think 2010 Danny was pretty smart. I made no edits to it before I made it public today.
Glimpse into an Unexpected Evening was a fun night with the Casa G boys in May 2010.
New Writing Project was about an article I started for Youth World about a mentoring program at AAI. Interestingly enough eight years later, Dani, who was a high school student in the program at the time, now runs Quito Quest, so she’s effectively my boss when I come back to host a Quito Quest team.
I Promise I Can Feed Myself probably speaks for itself. Post from 2010, which I’m guessing was never published because I intended to add photos of other food to it as a went. I guess this post will be unfinished art, but it is public now.
Communication was about our weekend Quito Quest staff scouting trip to Riobamba, Ecuador in January 2010.
Not Atypically Not Ready was about the craziness before my Christmas travel back to the US in December 2009.
Christmas Party to Remember was about my experience with dehydration during the 2009 Youth World Staff Christmas Party.
Emaus Mission Team was about a group of Quiteños and Gringos who journeyed to a ministry site in the jungle in October 2009.
First Office Days was a quick update on the beginning of “real life” in Quito after I finished language school.
On Writing was a post with some musings after an interesting conversation with a guest I was hosting while he was discerning whether to join the Youth World team.
Preparations? What Are Those? was really an admission of how completely unprepared I was to get on a plane and be in a foreign country for a year.
T-Minus 3 was about my last couple of days in North Carolina and my prep before I moved to Quito for a year.
Table for Twelve is more unfinished art about Maundy Thursday 2009.
Afternoon at CFC was about a brief ministry experience in March 2009.
Sermonitos from October 2008.
