{"id":47200,"date":"2020-08-19T09:51:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T13:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47200"},"modified":"2020-08-27T10:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T14:12:08","slug":"it-goes-without-saying-but-ill-say-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47200","title":{"rendered":"It goes without saying, but I\u2019ll say it anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"
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photo courtesy: Matt Altmix<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As excited as I am to have my brog back up and running, I\u2019d be remiss if I didn\u2019t talk about how absolutely none of this happens if not for my brother.\u00a0 For pretty much as long as I\u2019ve known him, he\u2019s been the rock<\/a> in which my internet presence has always existed upon, and he\u2019s literally hosted almost every iteration of my site(s) going on three decades now.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in like 2000, before my original webhost expired, he volunteered to host a mirror of my original site.\u00a0 Eventually the subscription lapsed, and then the mirror became the primary.\u00a0 As a joke, he purchased the domain needelsischeating.net<\/a> to also point to my site, but then because I was poor and stupid, I let my domain lapse, get cybersquatted by eBay, and then needelsischeating.net became my primary domain.\u00a0 Eventually, I would register totfc.net, which for those of you who don\u2019t<\/em> know, stands for TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN because when it comes to actual blogging, I firmly believe that is what I am, and it would become the domain I\u2019ve had since, and my brother hosted it the entire time, all the way from when it was a catch-all site for a lot of all my internet bullshit, to when in 2010, I switched it to a WordPress, because I realized that the brogging was really the only thing I actually cared about.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a sad few years when the brog went down, because life gets in the way, and he had moved from North Carolina to Louisiana and then finally to Bratislava<\/a>, and naturally, servers need to physically move as well.\u00a0 And he had things going on in his life, as I had things going on in mine, as does everyone, so getting the site back up definitely sat on the back burner for all of us.<\/span><\/p>\n

But with my daughter on the way and eventually having arrived, I always felt that I wanted to have my brog back up, because one, it was a logical and desired project for me to work on while I was out on paternity leave, but two, given the fact that I\u2019ve definitely got plenty to say about being a new dad, and raising a baby in the midst of a pandemic, I really wanted to have an outlet in which I could actually share my thoughts, emotions and experiences to anyone who might want to stumble across and find my blatherings one day, if not my daughter herself, hopefully when she\u2019s like 23, grown-up and capable of understanding and comprehending the words I\u2019ve slapped onto the internet.\u00a0 I mean, I\u2019ve been brogging for 20 years now, who\u2019s to say I won\u2019t be doing it when she\u2019s that old?<\/span><\/p>\n

And as he always does, my brother came through, and took the time to dust off all my old shit, put it back up online, and put me into a position to where I could resurrect the brog.\u00a0 I could\u2019ve just picked back up from where I last left off, but I figured now was as good of time as any to try and at least remain somewhat in the present in terms of platform, and almost all of my free time over the last three months have been spent working away at this task, which brings us back to today.<\/span><\/p>\n

I love him more than Floridians love Publix chicken tender subs, Philadelphians love Wawa, and more than he loves Bojangles.\u00a0 And I want him, and all of my zero readers to know that, that I treasure his brotherhood, friendship and companionship, and that I thank him every single day for being the brother I never had, and hosting my decades of internet nonsense that really doesn\u2019t mean anything to anyone except for me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As excited as I am to have my brog back up and running, I\u2019d be remiss if I didn\u2019t talk about how absolutely none of this happens if not for my brother.\u00a0 For pretty much as long as I\u2019ve known him, he\u2019s been the rock in which my internet presence has always existed upon, and … Continue reading It goes without saying, but I\u2019ll say it anyway<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,50,129,91,4,6],"class_list":["post-47200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-famiry","tag-honor","tag-nostalgia","tag-pf","tag-programming","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47203,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47200\/revisions\/47203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}