I'm Back..

Somehow, sometime in 2018 or so, most of my self-hosted Blogs got attacked with crazy junk and I had to take them down one by one.. Life kept happening and I lost touch with Blogging. Almost 9 years after my last post, I have revived somik.net and three of my Blog sites including this. Now hosted by a more reliable Blogger.com platform, I am less worried about my blogs getting attacked🤞

So here I am.. I don't know what I am going to write. I am much older and possibly wiser, with some more mistakes under the belt.. isn't that after all what life is? A string of mistakes and recovering from them?! 😉😎

Year 2026 is where I am getting back to doing things I had almost stopped or slowed down on - Writing, Photography, building Software, and Sports. A lot has happened..

Some highlights of the years gone by -

1. Four Job changes : Sep 2019, Apr 2022, Feb 2024, Apr 2025
2. Caught in a worldwide Covid pandemic starting in Mar 2020.
3. Lots of Singing and being part of local Karaoke groups
4. Stopped personal posts on Social Networking like (initially Orkut) Facebook. I still use Facebook and Instagram for my Photography and Software posts and sometimes some quips too😃
5. Experienced and Photographed the first ever Total Solar Eclipse in Mar 2024. More on that on my Photography Blog
6. Major Health issue: Got hospitalized and was out for 3 months on Short Term Disability from work starting in Apr 2024.. slowly recovered by Nov 2024. This has finally forced me to start leading a healthier lifestyle!
7. Restarting my Software gig at Softricks.net, my Blogs, and rekindling creative interests starting Feb 2026. I now have four Mobile Apps on Apple App store, one on Android and a Product suite for DNS Networking. Working on a few more. I am not a Microsoft or Apple, but I do it because I enjoy it!
8. AI (Artificial Intelligence) has taken over big time and it is almost boring to even talk about it.. But it can write on your behalf and do a lot more.. some of which is pretty disturbing. No, my blogs are not written by AI however!

As I am typing this, I am wondering who even wants to know all this?! 😂

A simple answer to this is - Nobody! I am not a celebrity, nor have I achieved anything for anybody to have any interest in my life. But like a famous Marathi writer and amazingly talented personality P. L. Deshpande said (translated) - "so what if I am not a celebrity, does it mean an average man should not write his biography"? 

So here I am.. back to pushing my thoughts into the digital media. As I close this post, I want to ask you - have you ever wondered about your life and tried to summarize every decade in your life?