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4 Years Ago:
Heading to Doc with Terp
VO2Max Test: 68.6Run / 63.3Bike
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Camera Phone Action For Fri, Feb 3, 2006
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Flu of Early 05 Post-Mortem
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Daily Weights
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2
Month
8
Day
2004
Year
Weblog-to-Life Parity
9
Hour
36
Minute
PMSo it's been a while since I logged some real life stuff.
I've kept up with the fitness and the holidays, for sure. But
I haven't posted much about my life lately.

Why not?

Massive changes. I feel compelled to write an equally massive
web log entry.

Why?

It's my belief that a web log should mirror a person's life.
It should tell a story. If there are massive changes in a
person's life, they should be reflected in the web log.

The difficulty is in creating this parity. When life moves
like a mofo it can sap your ability to keep the web log up to
date.

Or does it?

The very format of weblogging is easy... natural... quick. I
can make a web log entry in moments.

So clearly web logging isn't preventing me from achieving this
parity between my life and the web log.

I am.

I feel compelled to mirror the scale of change in my life with
an equally scaled web log entry. This means lots of words, in
general. So I build up my own expectation. I demand that I
write a big long one.

And I put it off for a day. Then two. Then three.

Two months later I still want to write about my life but I
can't because now my own expectation is huge.

So I need to let that expectation go. I need to just start
writing a little here and there.

That's the beauty of web logging. You don't have to do big
writeups. The format of web logging does the work for you.
The real story is always between the lines anyways. The real
story unfolds over time. The real story is somewhat inferred.

I'm going to add a little quick description of what's
happening. And then I'll try to add a little more tomorrow.
And then a little more.

I'll get back to this parity.
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7 years 11 months ago
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Joe Reger, Jr.
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