So, I started journalling way back in the old days, long before it was known as "blogging" and long before there were entire universes of journal domains. Way back then, I wrote my html from scratch in notepad and my entries were on one page in reverse chronological order, and there was no technology available for readers to comment. I later progressed to a slightly prettier and more sophisticated format wherein each new entry had its own page, and I had a nifty calendar thingy on my front journal page where a reader could click on a day. I kept that journal up on my sff.net site for.. wow... 7 years, I guess. It was pretty darn popular back then, especially when I kept my journal current when I went to Clarion West (1998).

I continued with the old journal through my divorce and my single life, and then through my big weight loss and my new career as a police officer. I even kept it up after I met Jack, but then after I got married I became much lazier about it. It didn't seem to matter as much and there was never enough time to keep it going. My readership fell off, and it began to seem somewhat pointless to keep posting for my paltry dozen or so readers. When I suffered a miscarriage with my first pregnancy I really started to lose interest in posting and it gradually drifted away. At some point I'll reload the old pages onto my old sff.net site and make them available for anyone who is so desperately bored as to want to read several years worth of journal.

But anyway, I've been getting the itch to journal again. (I still have a hard time calling it blogging. I just hate that term.) This is most likely due to the fact that my second pregnancy was successful and I gave birth to an utterly gorgeous baby girl on April 26, 2004. Now I have the deep urge to inflict all of my joy in babyness upon hapless readers.

Aren't you lucky?

So, the reason I am abandoning the old method I once used, is simply because I like the "comment" factor. I used to get a fair amount of email from my old journal, which was neat, but I think it would have been much neater if it had been more public.

I guess now I need to scrounge up some readers so that I can actually get some comments.