diff --git a/site/blog/so-now-i-have-a-blog.md b/site/blog/so-now-i-have-a-blog.md
index 190a775..083bbff 100644
--- a/site/blog/so-now-i-have-a-blog.md
+++ b/site/blog/so-now-i-have-a-blog.md
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
 ---
 title: so now i have a blog
-timestamp: 2023-06-09T16:00:00.00Z
-tags: [meta, technical]
-desc: I added a blog to my site.
-header_image_file: cat.jpeg # TODO: placeholder image
-header_image_alt: placeholder
-draft: true
+timestamp: 2023-06-09T22:20:00.00Z
+tags: [meta, blog]
+desc: I added a blog to my site. Here's a picture of some smoke.
+header_image_file: 2023/06/smoke.jpeg
+header_image_alt: Photo of smoke engulfing an interstate from a highway across a river.
 ---
 
 So now I have a blog on my site. I don't really have any plans to post here regularly, but idk maybe that'll change in the future.
 
-That's pretty much it as far as the non-technical side of things goes.
+That's pretty much it for now.
+
+<!-- That's pretty much it as far as the non-technical side of things goes.
 
 ## The Technical Side of Things
 
@@ -20,4 +21,4 @@ I haven't really written anything about how my site works before, so this is als
 
 When I added the [images section](/images/) to the site I added the first abstraction on top of this: YAML files with the relevant metadata for the image (including a short but unstyled description) which then get rendered not only into pages for the individual pages, but also a paginated display for all the images _and_ a method to view images by tag.
 
-To get blogs working I modified the image page code to be generic over provided resource types, so really the images and the blog posts are rendered the same way, just with different configurations.
+To get blogs working I modified the image page code to be generic over provided resource types, so really the images and the blog posts are rendered the same way, just with different configurations. -->
diff --git a/site/templates/base.hbs b/site/templates/base.hbs
index c4a1e8f..d2db6f6 100644
--- a/site/templates/base.hbs
+++ b/site/templates/base.hbs
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 			<span class="pronouns">she/they</span>
 		</span>
 		<span class="spacer"></span>
-		{{!-- <a href="/blog/">Blog</a> | --}}
+		<a href="/blog/">Blog</a> |
 		<a href="/images/">Images</a> |
 		<a href="https://github.com/Zyllian/zyllian.github.io" rel="noopener noreferrer">Source</a>
 	</header>