I Discovered Stats

I like to write. I do not know computers. I am less familiar with this site perhaps than I should be. I found the stats page and discovered that there are people who have read my blog. Very nice. I have another blog, although over there it's known as a diary, which has a dozen or so regular readers who also make it a point to comment. That's the beauty of that other site; since I've been writing over on OpenDiary.com, it's been an accepted part of the culture that readers comment on others' diaries. Comments don't seem to be as big a part of this site compared to the other. I can accept that. I don't write to get comments. I write to clear the bad feelings away, or remember something that's special to me.

I've been writing on Open Diary since February 1999. The site was about four months old when I discovered it. I think there were fewer than 2,000 people writing on the site when I started my diary. Now there are over 350,000 diaries on the site, although many only include one or two entries before they were abandoned.

Now I discover that maybe someone else out there is reading this, too. I am not going to change the way I write, or what I write. Mostly it's still going to be about Aikido, but some classroom and home events may find their way here. Those topics tend to go into my other blog.