|
My Photographs You like photos? I love taking them. Click here, if you wanna see some of my work
Is a photo missing on an older entry? Click here to find it at Photogra!  The Other Links Favorites and Rings are now here!
The life you save might be mine!
|
Wednesday, Jul. 31, 2002 - 5:17 p.m. Made what, you might ask? I made it a full year writing my �journal� here at Diaryland. Thank you, thank you. You are so very kind. You can stop applauding now. Anyway.............I thought about how I should mark this �milestone�. Some D-landers write a long entry, listing all of their favorite entries that they have written in the past 12 months. I won�t do that, because I don�t have any favorites. I think that almost all of my entries are perfectly mediocre. How can I select the few that are the top of the sub-average? Some people write an entry, telling everyone how much they enjoy being loved by their readers. I even had one diary that I used to read (but who has been removed from my fav�s list for some time now) who asked everyone to write to him, so he could be told why everyone (his readers) loved him. What an egotistical jerk! I actually had him on my fav�s list? For some reason, after that entry I couldn�t find a reason to spend time on his page anymore. He is probably still out there in d-land, telling everyone who stops by how great a person he still is. I thought a bit about this today (when I noticed that today is the day I started last year), and I came to the decision to write about what this �journal� meant to me. 1. This has been a good daily mental exercise for me. If you have read my stuff very much, you might find that statement laughable. But, no it�s really true. My job doesn�t provide much mental stimulation on a regular basis. �State Highway�. I think I might say that into a telephone receiver about 50 times in an average day. At least 5 of those calls are for the drivers license office, not us (it only took me about 2 months to finally memorize their number. I now cut the caller short as soon as I hear �My plates are expired� or �How can I get my drivers license renewed?� to save them time) Mixing brine? Plowing snow? Yeah, I need to write something just to keep the atrophy to a minimum. 2.This has been a good outlet to blow off steam. Working for a bureaucracy, you can understand why I might need to rant now and then. 3.Writing here helped me deal with a personal loss. After all, the page still bears her name, even thought she is no longer with us. 4.It has taught me to be very careful in what I put here to be read (great syntax there, huh?). When I write a rambling entry, I sometimes don�t make the point I meant. Unlike a simple friendly conversation, when you write something that is misunderstood, it�s there for all to read and take exception too. That is, until I notice the screw up, or someone writes me, asking what the fuck is wrong with me. Yes, this happens a lot. I blame my public school education, but its probably just being too lazy to double-check what I just wrote. 5.This �journal� has lead me to several new online friends, and even a few enemies. I haven�t met anyone in person through this page, but that will change here in a couple of weeks. I have exchanged g-book entries, notes, and even some emails (deep and otherwise) with people I would never had �met� otherwise. Even when I haven�t always been on the same page with you, I have enjoyed this interaction. If nothing else, this has made me a little more understanding to different points of view other than mine. Considering some of my coworkers already think I am too liberal, that is saying something. I enjoy writing this page. I have days where I just stare at the screen, wondering what the fuck I could possibly write about my day that would be worth reading. But that doesn�t stop me from posting some form of crap here anyway. Hopefully, I will still be here a year from now, cranking out even more boring gardening news, fishing stories, tale of my life with Lease and the Codeman, photos of our lives (if I don�t run out of web file storage space) and anything else I can come up with to fill up space. How do I end this today? Simple�. Thank you for reading my �journal�. Peace out.
 powered by SignMyGuestbook.com
Have You Read These?
A hot day for a wedding...9:26 p.m. - Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009 So bad - but so funny, too.10:33 p.m. - Saturday, Jun. 13, 2009 Evil Black Walnut Tree from Hell!- times up!6:41 a.m. - Thursday, Apr. 23, 2009 My next door neighbor was on the Today Show?8:57 p.m. - Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2009 This qualifies as a "oh crap!" moment:9:55 p.m. - Monday, Mar. 30, 2009 Back to top
|
