Like Nothing Happened
I try to keep trucking along, like nothing happened. This is an entry like any other. But the interface is strange. It's not the friendly face I've grown accustomed to over the years.
This interface is different. I have to choose too much. I have to define too many variables. There's no happy little sidebar with the list of recently updated journals, or the link to dictionary.com. The font is too small. The white space is too expansive. It is austere.
Mac and I took a nice, long walk this afternoon around the ponds at the ASU Research Park area. We got there as the sun was setting, and the many fishermen were packing up their gear. The ducks and geese were settling into clusters in the centers of the ponds, and the geese were settling along the banks in a row. A killdeer cried and flew a few feet ahead of us. It was peaceful and lovely. And, very close to home.
I decided today that everyone would be better off if they would just do what I say, and stop resisting the idea that I know what's best. I don't know if I really meant that, but it was fun to say. I tried it out on a few people, and got general agreement from them. *whipcrack* Oh, yeah. I wish it was so simple.
There was an article in the Dallas News about the demise of Diary-x. Fuck. The text of the article is as follows:
Diary-X, an online journaling community, has been shut down because of a drive failure."All journals, user information, forum posts, templates, images, and everything else are all irrecoverably lost," site founder Stephen Deken said in a post.
Diary-X.com was founded in 2000, and by last year hosted an estimated 120,000 journals.
There is a database at the site where former users can list their new blog sites and contact information.
-- From 'Quick', a publication of the Dallas Morning News. http://quickDFW.com/
120,000 fucking journals. Holy shit. That's way worse than I thought it was. That's just terrible.
I am all over the idea of prepping the thousands of entries I have backed up and importing them in here. I am also thinking hard about trying to rebuild Anonymous Confessor from the remains I have. I'm only considering that one. I don't think it will be getting the same amount of traffic, now. Anyway, I have downloaded some file utility software in an attmept to gather up the tools I need for that big task. Hopefully, I'll be able to nail it down soon.
I miss having my little yin-yang symbol to serve as the closing of my entries. They feel so incomplete, without.