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The coleslaw got served. - 2009-10-21
Probably a new job. But maybe not. - 2009-10-08

I should have waited, and written this entry in two months, or maybe in a year. Dammit.
2006-01-17 2:12 p.m.

All hail Uncle Bob. Specifically, the part about 2/3rds of the page down, when he mentions his six-year anniversary. He put into words a lot of things I've also been thinking about lately.

To be perfectly honest, I hadn't gotten any farther in my thoughts than "Damn, I've been keeping an online diary for a really fucking long time." I flatter myself that I might have eventually arrived at some of the same conclusions that Uncle Bob did. I was totally thinking about the word "blog," anyway.

It was in a slightly different context, and I hadn't really tied the fact that everyone knows this ridiculous, made-up word now to the idea that MY site was older than the word "blog." Think about that. I had a blog before they even existed. How cool is that?

So, yes. I was sort of half-thinking about how long I'd had my diary, and I was at other times passing a billboard that mentioned blogging and sort of half-thinking about how that came to be something that really wasn't strange at all. I could have put the pieces together. It could have been me. Maybe.

I just checked. My six-year anniversary will be March 19. Damn, that's a long time.

I wonder how many other people have Diaryland sites that have been regularly maintained this long. I wonder how I'd go about finding out. Hmm.
***
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere once that what with shedding dead skin and growing new hair follicles and such, you are, on a cellular level, a completely different person every seven years. It's something I think about whenever I'm confronted with a huge span of my personal time.

If I've had this site for almost six years, I'm still slightly the same person I was when I started. My toes feel the same. They must be the part that changes last...
***
(later)
Just because I'm really curious:
I know I almost never think to look for new diaryrings on the members page. Maybe putting it here will increase my chance of someone actually seeing it. Please join, if you qualify. Tell your friends!

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