A New Year, A New … Site

True to the cheesy headings, I’m changing things up here on my site.

I’ve felt like the OctopusHive as a travel blog was never gonna make it. First off, I don’t travel enough to get material and I’m kinda boring as all of the adventure stuff goes. I just like eating, chatting, drawing, and playing games. Sure, I could make that interesting, maybe, but clearly it wasn’t interesting enough to me to even try.

Art Supplies strewn across a bed in a hotel room.
Seriously, my last trip to Thailand was mostly spent drawing/painting in my hotel room or working at a co-op workspace.

Going into 2020, I feel like a new man. I’m about to finish my first year living in China and I feel like I’ve grown by leaps and bounds. I’m doing more art, I have my own place, I making all new friends, I’m on the verge of being bilingual (It’s a blurry line some my say trilingual, but I’d feel weird claiming that one.)

All that said, this site is going to be my, hopefully not too vain, place to give back to the internet. I’ve self-taught myself so many things from YouTube, like knitting, kombucha brewing, watercolor, pickling vegetables, and folding little paper stars. Forums, blogs, and online-course sites have been my go-to for years.

My Kombucha Stuff
This was my early set-up for brewing Kombucha when I was still using my expensive tea.

I don’t have one thing I’m terribly good at. So, I’ll just be throwing stuff up here that I’ve found, figured out, created, or even just have questions about.

There’ll probably be a store at some point to off-load some of my Art and make enough money to justify the time-money expense of maintaining this site. And if it gets serious enough, I’ll probably have to be more professional about stuff and separate out my content. But I can worry about that later.

What to expect in the future

Most of my posts will be less personal, I think. Like I said, my goal is to give back. You can look for content like: