I have finally given up on WordPress. It's big and powerful, but it's too big and powerful for my needs. I realized that the things I have to share with the world fall into a few categories, most of which are served by other services like Google+, Twitter, etc. There are only a few things where I really want to have my pages, with my links, and my style.
After trying to write my own, I went looking for an HTML generator script that could handle some basic dynamic things like creating a list of links based on the contents of a directory. Preferrably, the system would be lightweight and in a language I have some familiarity with.
I found Poole to be a really good fit for what I'm after. It's in Python, so extending it for my needs was easy. Some of the additions I have are pretty generally useful, like listing pages based on keyword or category, so in my copious free time, I'll think about cleaning them up and seeing if the owners of Poole want to include them.
I also played with the fancy Bootstrap CSS for doing photo albums and generally making the basic pages a little neater. CSS has come a long way in the years since I've looked closely at it.
We'll see how long it is until I get sick of posting my blog here and keep this site just for static links to my stories and recipes. That's where the real value is anyway. :)