Please, be fortunate!
It’s the year of the tiger! Last night, the wife and I celebrated this with a lovely hot pot dinner. If I were a decent food writer I would now write two pages describing how delicious the broth was and how deep fried tofu puffs are the most underrated foodstuff in existence. However, I’ve just started (like genuinely, this is the first real piece, my starting point is one line up!) and the complex ins and outs of the hot pot are more of wife’s forte anyway. So for this piece I’m going to focus on the feeling I have today. No, I don’t mean the mildly burned lips, although those are very much present. I want to convey the proverbial butterflies I have in my belly.
Today is not only the first day of a new lunar year. It is also the day where I officially launch this website. Didn’t websites die in 2014? Yes, I guess they sorta did. However, I did history at university and that has given a soft spot for “old” things like this. Also this website will hopefully serve as my central “base of operations” here on the internet. As you can see in the links below and the top right corner, the usual social media are there and I will maintain these as best as I can. I do hope though, that some of you will find your way to this website and this blog.
Along with putting this page online I will also pay my tribute to the big social media gods and make my first posts on all the accounts I made for In Taberna. I wouldn’t normally think twice about a tweet or a post but these are the first public outings of the endeavour I am trying to build my livelihood around and I’m not going to lie, it is extremely scary. This is the point where the ship in which I have poured all my resources casts off, the sails haven’t fully unfurled yet (that’s when the first videos go up) but I am now in the water and land is getting smaller.
I think it’s obvious why I am doing this today. It’s the first day of the year of the tiger, which happens to be my Chinese zodiac symbol. Now I don’t believe that heavenly bodies lightyears away have any impact on our daily lives. However, I am quite a sucker for symbolism and I can’t think of a better day to start a new enterprise on the internet than a day where the entire internet is filled with people wishing each other fortune and prosperity.
I’m nervous, but I’m glad you’re here.