TTK Ciar's Journal: Trying Something New and Different

And now for something a little different..

Last saturday I had a chat with a long-distance friend who says I don't write enough in my journal. This wasn't exacly news to me, but he said something interesting. When I observed that most days there isn't much more to my life than "woke up, worked hard, came home late, went to bed way too late", he replied that that was okay, he'd like to read it.

So I mulled that over, worried a bit that the dozens of "crap" journal entries would drown out the occasional "quality" entry, and realized I could remedy that with a new format. I'd make an "Everyday Life" journal entry, and then reply to it on the days that followed with the latest "Everyday Life" report. Then when I got around to making a quality entry, it would be a new entry on its own, so it would stand out from the "Everyday Life" entries, and then I'd start a new "Everyday Life" journal entry after it, so that all entries would logically remain in chronological order. (If that didn't make much sense, that's okay, you'll see.)

So, it's two days later and still no journal entry. WTF? Well, there's another problem -- one of timing. When do I talk about my day? Not in the morning, because my day hasn't happened yet. Not during business hours, because I work my ass off trying to get stuff done. I'm buried in enough work to keep two engineers busy -- there is no chance of my getting ahead of the workload, all I can do is try to minimize the number of projects that get dropped entirely. Not after I get home, because I prefer spending time with my wife over the computer (this journal entry you're reading now being an exception; she is currently engrossed on something on her own computer). Also, that's really the most interesting part of my day, and little of it if any would get put in the day's entry. It lasts until we're both too outrageously tired to really enjoy being awake any longer and we drag ourselves to bed. Then it's too late, and memories of the more interesting bits of the previous day are swept aside by the hectic new day.

So, where does that leave me? It leaves me with the option of putting something else into my "low-calorie" journal entries, something other than a few short words about my day. And there is plenty of material to draw from -- I have a rich internal life, and my three hours a day of commute gives me much time to ponder. I just don't usually like to put it into written words unless I'm going to do a proper job of it -- and I seem to get around to that maybe once every few months. So I'll just have to practice doing an improper, half-assed job of it, so I can post entries more often.

And that's the plan. We'll see how it goes.

-- TTK

yay!

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Yay! We'll take whatever we can get.