This evening I’ve been doing something that at first I thought was really silly that in the long run has been really informative and weird.
Right now, if you are reading this, then are reading my blog on its new server. I did this to save money (because this is a much better hosting plan) and to make better use of a domain name that I wasn’t using any more. In making this transition I realized that I am soon going to loose the old old old blog that I used to write in. This “journal” was a nice little thing written by someone I knew that would look to directories for journal entries, and each one was a text file that had to manually be uploaded. It was a bit more time consuming rather then using something as simple as Word Press, which in itself almost acts like a word processor.
Faced with the loss of this virtual time capsule into the looking glass of my life I figured I should take the time to sit down and input all of these entries into this blog. One of the first things that I noticed, however, is that this process is very time consuming. The damn formatting isn’t very straight forward and so there are all kinds of line entries that have carriage returns in places that they shouldn’t (although I now realize that I can use Ultra Edit to take out the carriage returns and tabs that shouldn’t be there… damn, this is going to suddenly go a lot faster).
The second thing that I noticed is that it is kind of interesting to virtually go back in time and read about the guy that I was five years ago. I hadn’t gone back and read those entries since I wrote them. Some of the things I wrote I found so funny I was jealous of the fact that I didn’t write them, and then of course I realize that I did. Then I’m stuck wondering why on Earth I can’t seem to write something that witty now, and then I realize that I haven’t really been writing anything lately so that would explain why I don’t seem to write things all that witty any more.
I also realize that I’ve been through a lot in the past five years. It has been an amazing journey, a very testing one, but I’m glad that I made the trip and I survived it.
So, welcome to the next level.
-WW
