![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
The New Paranoia
Aug. 16th, 2007 08:36 pmSo here I am blogging as I always said I was. For myself. I've been posting lots of private entries to myself. They don't go into specifics about work, because how dumb would that be? But I do talk about work and with the way things are lately I don't feel comfortable even putting those out even as 'trusted readers only'. Despite how I go on about blogging just for myself it does feel different when I write things that no one but me (and the snoopy techs at 6A should I attract their attention somehow) will ever see. If I die I think I should like my journal to be opened up. All the private stuff put out there after a decent interval has been observed. Say, five years. I wonder if that will ever be a thing. Researchers using computers to cull through old journal entries for ground level views of history. I know that researchers on any period before about 1850 would kill for masses of such information. How incredibly useful would it be if there had been a dozen lower class individuals keeping track of their lives around the French Revolution? But do such things hold any value today?
I know my journal has a lot of value for me. It can show me things like how I really thought about something at the time rather than how I remember it in retrospect. That is how I know that I expected Saddam Hussein to have at least some pathetic/decrepit chemical or bio warfare works around, though I did not expect the US troops to face any actually effective weapons. Though I held my breath fearing that I would be proved wrong in a dramatic way. That it would be a huge vindication of the Bush Administration and I'd have to eat at least some personal crow. I wonder how many people also felt those sorts of fears and have not forgotten saying, "Oh I knew all along and so did everyone really in the know."
It is even more useful for the small things. The bits that I would otherwise forget to write down. Like my random experiments with food and/or alcohol. Right. I should probably do more beer reviews again. I have, until this week, had about one a night with dinner. This week I skipped for a number of days because I felt blue and did not want to have alcohol. I tend to get bluer under the influence.
I know my journal has a lot of value for me. It can show me things like how I really thought about something at the time rather than how I remember it in retrospect. That is how I know that I expected Saddam Hussein to have at least some pathetic/decrepit chemical or bio warfare works around, though I did not expect the US troops to face any actually effective weapons. Though I held my breath fearing that I would be proved wrong in a dramatic way. That it would be a huge vindication of the Bush Administration and I'd have to eat at least some personal crow. I wonder how many people also felt those sorts of fears and have not forgotten saying, "Oh I knew all along and so did everyone really in the know."
It is even more useful for the small things. The bits that I would otherwise forget to write down. Like my random experiments with food and/or alcohol. Right. I should probably do more beer reviews again. I have, until this week, had about one a night with dinner. This week I skipped for a number of days because I felt blue and did not want to have alcohol. I tend to get bluer under the influence.