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         A journal doesn't really help if you never finish the entries
                                        
It's been fun going though some of my own entries with the new “this day”
feature [1]. One thing I've noticed is that I used to write way more entries
in the past than I do now. Part of that may be the newness of online
journaling. Another part might be there was less risk of repeating myself
[2]. Perhaps I hadn't run out of things to say? Who knows?

I did find a stash of unfinished entries [3] from the time I started working
at Negiyo when I checked out this day of October 13^TH [4]. At first, I was
afraid the partial text was due to a bug, but no, the 13^TH of October, 2000
[5] really is a few sentence fragments, along with a whole bunch of other non
entries that month—I guess I never finished those. And that entry for October
30^TH, 2000 [6]? It's not cut off—apparently I came across the source code
for ITS (Incompatible Timesharing System) [7]. But I can't even remember what
I wanted to say, much less where I stuffed said source code. And what was up
with the security guard and the Bible [8]? I want to know! I need closure!

Curse my younger self for not finishing these entries!

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2020/02/26.1
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2018/10/07.2
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2000/10
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:thisday/10/13
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2000/10/13
[6] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2000/10/30.1
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompatible_Timesharing_System
[8] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2000/10/28.1

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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