Since Blahthings

 "Blahthings" was the name I gave the online journal that I kept from June 2000 through 2005. By 2005, it had become more of an annoyance than a joy. Editorial decisions that I made early on ended up displeasing important people in my life. They delighted me so I had trouble imagining them being embarrassed by being part of my journaling life. 

This time will be different. I plan to write less about the nuts and bolts of events and write more reflections of things. You can know that I still love my beloved and she is more my right hand than ever but I don't want to play journal politics with her again. Chances are that I will be reflecting on things that are at least a decade in the past most of the time. When I do write about things that have just happened, I'll probably use the - oh so clever! - disguise of the royal we so that I don't embarrass her.There won't be any attempt to make this a daily journal anymore and I won't be obsessed with audience this time. One of the main reasons why I'm doing this is because my vision is too poor right now to keep my private journal with pen and paper. I had a scare last January that forced me to make actual, legal arrangements to prepare for going blind. My vision has improved since then but I was legally blind for a while. I got some practice at metaphorical staring into the abyss and functioning through the fear.

Blogger is putting me through formatting misery here. I hate thinking about formatting while writing unless I'm hand coding which I used to enjoy. Of course, I used a form of HTML from the last millennium which predated CSS. Well, style sheets were in the second half of the book buy I never bothered learning them. In any case, I'm going to bail here before I have to fix more code.