Blogger diary

Was just checking out individual blog postings made by people I know, and I came across one that got me thinking. I'll not tell you who it is, because I don't want to embarrass anyone, particularly since this person has already told me they stopped blogging more or less immediately after they started. The blog reads, in full, as follows:

welcome to the 21st century version of a diary.

...and has done since the 27th October 2005. Not that I'm criticising anyone here. Just because I bombard the however many people who bother to read me with my random thoughts, doesn't mean everyone else has the necessary... um... arrogance and self-obsession .. to believe their random thoughts are of interest to others.

What I was saying was that it reminded me a lot of my diaries from the 20th century. You know, you get one of those day-to-a-page A5 or A6 size jobbies and your typical first entry is something like:

1 Jan:My new years resolution is not to get so drunk I vomit over Michelle's sofa again. Think I've blown my chances there. How much did I have to drink last night? Geez. I was out with Mikey, and Dave, and we bumped into Spud in the Lion and then we went back to Gez's, who is a mate of Dave's, and Maggie was there and Mikey copped off with her as per bloody usual despite saying that he doesn't fancy her. Anyway, there was me standing there with my can of lager when who should walk in but Sara..

...and so on. And on. Normally in a nauseatingly self-delusional, self-pitying and neurotic kind of a way. The worst examples even sometimes include (dramatic pause) poetry. I mean, Yikes.

But by the end of your first two weeks, you're down to one diary entry every few days, and that reads something like:

11 Feb: Essay on endochryne glands due in. Note: learn how to spell endocryne

And then of course two weeks later, the diary sits on a shelf and gets ignored. Well, dear blog, I promise not to do that to you. I'll not (totally) forget about you. I might fill you up with a load of nonsense, but somehow, for some reason, people keep reading.

Having said that, I'm a lot more sane and coherent than some of the blogs out there.

UUUHHHGGG-rrrrRRR indeed.