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That amazes me, until I think about the journallers who are popular, getting 1,000 - 2,000, even 10,000 - 20,000 readers a day.

I'm not really jealous, you know. Sour grapes? I don't think so, but who am I to say? A long, long time ago, I wrote about popularity and my feelings haven't changed any about that.

If I were to become popular, I would become self-conscious, and then I wouldn't be able to write a word, and my popularity would vanish. Yep, that's the way it works.

"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." This has stuck in my mind, in my heart, ever since I saw it first. It works, like true wisdom always does, on so many levels.

OK, on to another subject: today was a rotten day, in many senses of the word. Last night I didn't get to sleep until 03:30, and I got up at 06:00. That isn't enough sleep, I have to do much better'n that tonight. Karen was also wakeful last night, but not so much as I was.

So anyhoo, no sleep + regular day = rotten day. No sleep + rotten day Monday = super-rotten day, and I am glad that it's almost over.

Brother Dan, who knows about stuff like this, says that the government isn't really lying about there being a danger from shuttle debris. Well, I grudgingly have to concede the point, although I know that I'm setting a bad example. Sometimes facts are uncomfortable, and don't fit into our world-views, but that doesn't keep them from being facts. True facts. I remember someone in my childhood that would use that term, as if there were many types of facts out there, but he, and only he, had access to the True Facts. I think that it was my cousin Olin, come to think about it.

Karen and I watched her movie, it was OK for killing time, if I had any time to kill.