The Diary of A Simple Man

For the record, nine out of 26 posts that I've made this month (not counting this one, and excluding one that's me-only) were either friends-only or private. So just over 1/3 of my posts are visible only to people on my flist and (in some cases) filters.

If you're wondering where my posts are, I've been doing more and more of them as friends-only posts in recent months. I don't expect to ever make my entire journal friends-only, but at least 20% of it has not been public, and I expect that trend to increase.

If you want to be added to my friends list, email me or make a comment on a public post of mine or something and I'll almost certainly add you.

Just for the record, out of 37 posts so far this month (this being the 38th), 14 were friends-only. If you're not on my flist, or if you are but you're not logged in when you read my journal, you're missing more than a third of the stuff I've put up.

Oh, the agony you must feel! :D

I will get back to everyone who has commented - AND comment on my flist, to the best of my ability. I appreciate you all a lot more since that long dry spell.

But I've been beyond busy lately.

While I'm here, though, a quick note for no good reason: last night I stepped on a thing. It might have been a short length of pencil lead from a mechanical pencil. Or it might have been a needle. Or it might have been a carpet tack with the head broken off. I don't know.

Whatever it was, it ended up piercing the sole of my left foot. And it took Teri about ten minutes of probing with needle-sharp tweezers to get it out.

Ouch.

Okay, then. I'm blatantly imitating unquietsoul5 and doing a Cast of Characters post. This won't be repeated often; only when new people come in. Rarely, in other words.
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Have I forgotten anyone? I'd mention my other active LJ friends, but this is already getting too long.

Arisia has worked its magic, and for the first time in...ever, actually, I get to welcome some new people: stairflight, ckd, akicif, aurora_lamour, archangelbeth, and tonysalieri.

stairflight, by the way, is my old friend Flight-of-Stairs, who has FINALLY joined LJ after putting up with years of nagging and pleading from me. See? Persistance works!

Here are some quick links to the tags that I use the most: Arisia, Fiction, Humor, Letters, Dreams, Music, Politics, Sebastian, Spam, Strange, and Webhosting. Of course most of my posts predate tagging; I plan to work through the backlog and tag everything in time.

I should probably be like unquietsoul5 and do one of those "cast of characters" posts, but right now I don't have time. But here's a list of the tags I've used most often; of course, the vast majority of my posts predate tagging and aren't included.

One of these days I should probably go back through the old posts and tag them.

Arisia
Fiction
Humor
Letters
Dreams
Music
Politics
Sebastian
Spam
Strange
Webhosting

By the way, I'm coughing, sneezing, have a runny nose, and a blinding head/sinus ache. But since I have no sick days left, I'm not sick.

How lucky for me.

Welcome to my journal. About two-thirds to 75% of the posts are public. The really GOOD stuff is friends-only. Okay, I'm kidding - sort of. But there are a fair number of friends-only posts.

If you'd like to be added to my flist, my standards are pathetically low. Comment here or email me, and reciprocate.

I was just purged by one of the people on my Flist. So I said "Fuck it!" and cleaned out my own list. First time I've ever done it, and it wasn't quite as painful as I expected. I'm plenty sick and tired of - no, wait. I'm not really sick and tired. It's just frustrating to feel that I'm writing my best, or at least pretty well, and getting less response than almost anyone else on LJ. But that's how it is. And there's no point in letting my feelings be hurt more than they have to be. People don't want to read me? People don't want to friend me back? Fine. I'll live.

That's what I do. I live.

Done. Four "friends" deleted. I'd only met one of them in person anyway.

There's one more person who hasn't friended me back. At the end of the year, he's out too. New year, a new start...why not?

I don't need to worry about this shit any more. In fact, that would be a great New Year's resolution.

I wanted to remind everyone (well, assuming that more than two people are reading this, a dubious proposition at best) that 10 of the 27 posts this month were friends-only. Including all of my fiction.

It's hard, writing for an audience of two or three. But on the plus side, yesterday I went back and read my entries for 2003, back when I started this thing. No one else may be interested, but I quite enjoyed those early entries. So...I guess that makes it worth it.

Yeah. I guess it does. And maybe the boy will read this some day.