This photo was the first thing I ever posted to the original .MOBI, which was not at Sorabji.MOBI but at sorabji.com/treo. I thought this was lost but, what do you know, there it is among other Treo 700p photos from 11 years ago. It is timestamped October 11 2006 but I think that might be wrong. For whatever reason I find that a lot of these old cameraphone pictures have incorrect timestamps. I think this was more likely from October 2005 but that almost does not make sense, either. Dad died September 5 2005 and I drove the car up here relatively soon after. But I don’t think it was that soon. Then again it doesn’t add up for it to be from 2006 and for it to be the first thing I ever posted at the .MOBI, since I started .MOBI as a place to talk about my dad’s passing and other personal matters in a place where only those who were genuinely interested would know to find it. I did not wait a whole year to start that.
From October 11 2006
It’s not a masterpiece but it reminds me that I used to take my dad’s old car to this place on 21st Street to get it washed.
What remains lost from the original .MOBI is the database, or rather the complete database. Some posts went missing, which makes no sense to me, but that seems to be the story. That site used a rather homely blogging software called Comoblog, which was ugly and stilted looking but I liked it anyway. I tried setting that up again but it’s way deprecated now. Actually I just looked it up and find it was updated as recently as 2013. Who knew?
Trying to make something of this day. It is cold as hell. I’ve been writing into my private journal, feeling a sense of hopeless and pity at the state of my life. All things can change, and they can change quite abruptly. Or they can perpetuate into oblivion, not resembling anything that had evolved or grown.
