I kept a daily diary for years and years. I kept it from 1974 until almost 1993, and then I started having a lot of personal turmoil in my life that made it very hard to keep it up.

It was sporadic from 1993 till 1996, and then I gave up keeping it. I simply found I didn't need it anymore. I also write John an email every day and he writes me one back, and we have done this since we met in 1996, so I have a long standing record in order of date, of the basics of any day in my life since then, simply from his emails.

I thought about starting a journal online, but decided it was not necessary, due to having a) our emails, and b) my Portaffinity Group, which also gives me a place to vent online and talk about my day if I want. It's a great reference if I want to know something, used it just the other day.

But I know other people who have online blogs and they do use them, and invite me to read them so some are in use. Too bad there isn't some means on the internet of determining the dormant sites and sending out notices that they would be deleted after a certain time period has passed.

Right now even, I'm trying to save all the posts in my other Yahoo group to word so that I can delete it, since it is relatively dead. But I don't want to delete it until I have copied it all out to Word. But at least when and if I do, I will have gotten rid of 1 piece of deadwood on the world wide web. :)

Nightowl >8#