Once, Long Ago, a Blog Was Here...

Uh oh.

Woooooo, first Skillet Doux post in over a DECADE!!

(Didn't have that one on my bingo card.)

And also, I suspect, the very last Skillet Doux post ever.

With TypePad set to shut down in just a few days, I've been scrambling to figure out a way to archive this blog in a readable format, nuking all of its back-end blogly functionality, preserving its appearance in amber, and migrating it to a server that is fully under my control.

I *think* I've succeeded.

Within the next few days, though the databases and mechanisms behind it will disappear, the front-facing pages of Skillet Doux shall remain, and should be fully readable and available at their old permalinks. I'm tweaking the sidebar a bit to better suit the blog's new archival format, but everything else should remain unchanged. The easiest way to navigate is probably to use the "Archive" link on the right. That's the quickest, most direct route to everything I posted over Skillet Doux's seven-year active run (and subsequent 13-year limp towards its eventual demise).

Most likely, I've personally generated more pageviews for this blog in the past week than it had seen in the previous decade. But this is where it all began for me, and so much of the ancient web is slowly disappearing that I couldn't bear to let this little part of it disintegrate into the digital ether.

So if you're just stumbling across Skillet Doux now, herein lie the ramblings of a food-obsessed amateur writer who somehow ended up making a profession out of it.

Don't judge me too harshly. (Especially the bio. Ugh.) We all got started somewhere!

     -Dom