I'm going to follow my normal pattern of behavior and abandon the blogging attempt. In the modern world, the traditional model of blogging isn't exactly useful where online personal journals have been absorbed into things like tweets, wall posts, and streams. Attempting to maintain a blog, especially within the inconvenient quasi-manual apparatus I set up, seems redundant and unnecessary. After all, who really cares what I type here that isn't already followed, friended, or circled?
Now, some things I'm working on may have general utility to others: describing the though process behind photographs, describing lens design, builder's log from an aircraft, etc. For these things, it makes more sense to use a hierarchical website layout instead of a temporal one. In the next couple months, I'll try to see what I can get together (with more automation this time).
That said, I did successfully solo yesterday.