27 months.

The last post to this site was on 31 October 2023, and that means I’ve paid my web host for two solid years and haven’t bothered to blog anything. Just keeping the lights on. And for a couple of email addresses, along with the domain registrations…

OK fine, the monthly “hosting” bill is about more than just this one blog. But it is criminal how long I’ve neglected it.

I have a longer list of things to do for 2026. There are a couple of static pages that I need to set up, landing pages for both my professional site and another for the business site, after I file for the DBA and pay appropriate local registration and administrative fees. In parallel, I need to get the Itch site up and running so that when I hit my publishing deadlines for 2026, those pdfs have a place to live and maybe even sell (priced pay-what-you-want for this first year). Once I convince myself I can hit multiple publishing deadlines in a single year, for 2027 there might be a Patreon or some other way to subscribe, and we’ll do it all again.

And while I also want to blog more, in 2026, it’ll be at a new URL. RocketBomber was and is my personal site, it was about bookselling when I was a bookseller, and about feeling lost in the wilderness and casting about a bit when I more suddenly wasn’t a bookseller, a decade ago and more. RocketBomber has been a solid “brand” but it was never the perfect fit; like a lot of domains I’ve collected since 2000, it was for a project that never quite launched. When you start planning, you buy a dot com (like a normal person) because you don’t want to be in the situation where you have a great name but someone else has the website.

This year, when I write, I want it to be on a topic I am enthusiastic about, a hobby I actively enjoy, projects I’m doing on my own time because I can’t help but work on them. I want to be inspired, I want to share the joy, I want to have fun and hopefully I can communicate all that. So I’ll be diving into RPGs, fantasy maps, fantasy fiction, and table top games as The Midnight Cartographer, and producing my own game-related stuff on Itch, as Interpunct Games (and also under the Fantasy Mile brand).

This isn’t a goodbye. I’ll likely still need a personal blog for personal things, especially since the new site will be narrower, topic-focused. But the energy and activity will be over there, and RocketBomber will only get its [typical?] once-a-year-or-so updates.