### To renew or not to renew, that was the question… > [!What are they for?] It seems a *Digital Garden* is looser than a Blog, less structured than a web post, less judgy than a Social Media rant and forms part of a Knowledge Network. Publish](https://obsidian.md/publish). [[My Obsidian workflow]] ##### Recent things… [[Fat Belly MacBook Pro]] --- #### After one year I’d none very little… Recently I had a message pop-up telling me that my [Obsidian Publish](https://obsidian.md/publish) subscription was about to expire. But a whole year and I’d really not got anything done in that year all I’d posted were pointless notes, my writing had not improved one jot or ; or … I looked for the *free* alternatives to Obsidian Publish, there are more than a few and still might give some a try but the hassle of having to set up a new `Obsidian —> GitHub —> Vercel or Cloudflare or Netlify —> web` was sounding like more friction than just stumping up another $96 and being done with it. No, I can’t afford to just dump another thick end of $100 but there are other things I can do without over the course of a year to recoup the damage. Pragmatism over effort. --- I’ve had a career in all things digital, especially photography and video. I now find myself having to get my hands properly dirty, messy and muddy, not just bossing pixels, words and code around. I’ve become a commercial gardener, odd-jobber, fixer-upper too. I volunteered for this. (never volunteer) Helping out a family business venture. “Can you find an extra 10 hours a week to help us out please“? Was the question. Easy I thought. No, it’s not. The scope of the job has expanded along with the time commitment and I easily fill my week on the muddy side. On the plus side; It has made me *very happy*. Initially, I was sceptical and thought this *beneath* me. But now I’m having fun, outside most days and meeting all kinds of new people. I wanted a change and this is an unexpected branching. I’m still living with the pixels and now add the weeds too. So, hopefully this will be part chainsaw, part visual, part pixels, part writing all wrapped up in [Obsidian