I’ve kept a journal since I was a kid. The old kind, with pen and paper. For reasons that will become apparent as you leaf through these virtual pages, I’ve had to destroy those old paper journals. It may seem counter intuitive that I’d be putting information on display, in a more public and exposed forum than an old notebook, and I’m sure it seems strange that I’d consider a public blog safer than say, stashing said old notebooks in a trunk at the back of the closet. But I am and I do. I’ve come to find out that there are people out there who can do what I do, in regards to written text. If you don’t know what I’m talking about yet I won’t ruin the surprise – you won’t have to wait long anyway.
But the upshot of all this is that I’m not really transcribing the old notebooks. I’m copying, yeah, but also sort of taking a closer look, filling in some of the blanks here and there with stuff I may not have known then, cringing at and editing my writing and removing some shit you don’t need to know. Hey, tell me you wouldn’t do the same thing if you had to copy down something you wrote ten or more years ago. Yeah, I thought so. So you’re not getting exactly my journal as it was, but the information that some of you need to know, yeah that’ll be there. Anyone else reading this, well, I guess you’ll get a story or two – what did you do, take a wrong turn on the internet?
On a technical note, while I’ve always kept a journal, I never said I was very good at it – some of these old entries, yeesh. I’m taking liberty with the posts now, is what I’m getting at – you’re not going to see, “Dear Diary, today this happened.” It’ll be roughly chronological, but that’s about all I can promise.