I've spent most of the day working on the archives... I'm up March 1997 now.
This is a very tedious project... I hope that someone appreciates it! O'well, I will, even if nobody else does.
While I'm adding the tags and checking the links, I'm also reading the entries. So that adds even more time to the process. For instance, the entry where I had Doggie put to sleep took me a long time to do.
I wish that I would've started a journal 30 years ago, I would really like to read it now. Just the last three years have been very useful to me in several ways.
I always announce that I've updated the Keirsey pages on diary-l and journal-l, and immediately thereafter I get a raft of new ones to input so I can do it all over again.
And they're all relatively new journals. I haven't checked Open Pages lately, but there are over 600 listed there... and 988 right now on The Registry. What a long way we've come, in terms of quantity! I read today that I was amazed when there were 50 journals on Open Pages... gee, how was I gonna keep up with everybody?
There is a lot of turnover, however. Probably only one out of four makes it past a year; lotsa dead links out there in journal-land. Some of the more acerbic members of diary-l have stated that a lot of them are just jumping on the bandwagon... that may well be, but most of them are sincere in their efforts.
They just don't realize the actual work that is involved in writing... writing anything... on a regular basis. Or the work that is involved in maintenance.
So they're here... then they're gone... living their lives off-line, just like real people again.
But the ones that stick around, and provide me with my daily entertainment... I love 'em. A lot. And I'm happy to be here with them.
Mostly because this is just about the funnest thing that I've ever done with my clothes on.
And more fun than quite a few things that I've done nekkid, too. But we won't talk about that...
Karen and I went over to Andy and Karla's tonight; Karen took supper over and she and Karla cooked/prepared supper while Andy and I loaded him up some software. He's go a really nice machine, and I'm jealous.
This 200MZ clunker Compaq is doing just fine, though... I guess. It does everything that I need it to do, just not really really fast. And, dammit, I like fast. I can't afford fast, but I like fast.
So, I guess I'll get back to working on the archives now... O'wait! Karen and I got two movies last night... Primary Colors, which we watched last night, and Last Man Standing. So maybe we'll watch that.
O'well, Karen is really interested in something else on the tube, that other movie will wait.
I enjoyed Primary Colors; I'm getting to be a Travolta fan. It's taken me quite a while, but I'm comin' around...
Back to work...
With 50, it was possible, and I did it. When it got to be 100, I gave up. Now, nobody with a job could do it, and even without a job it would be a close thing.