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No clue. That was my response when my wife asked me why I'd signed up for LiveJournal. I'm not a joiner, as a rule, and, with a few notable exceptions, hate reading journals. I came across one yesterday, just randomly browsing, written by a (presumably) high-school age female. Jeezus H. Kee-r-I-st, don't we teach our kids how to write anymore? By fourth grade I could spell, write in complete sentences, and knew the proper use of a semi-colon for God's sake, but this young woman could barely construct a coherent thought let alone be bothered with punctuation. I mean, I'm all for "stream of consciousness" and all that happy horse shit, but I've never had my consciousness fucked up so badly that the stream looked more like the waste outlet for a hair-treatment chemicals plant than an actual flow of ideas.

e e cummings got away with it, darlin'. You just sound like a moron.

Maybe that's what this journal will be good for. A place to pile on the rants that my wife doesn't want to listen to anymore, which, in spite of how it sounds, is not in and of itself, in fact, a rant. Merely an observation.

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Welcome to LJ-Land, my dear. It is a place populated by a large number of very young people, who type like those who learned to by doing Instant Messaging.

You will find the odd intelligent person here or there and over time, you may or may not choose to add them to your friends list and read them.

This is however, a good venue for exactly what you describe, but also an interesting peek into the minds of those you know. And most certainly a way to keep up with people you dig, but see rarely.

Looking forward to what might emerge from yours given the venue.

D.

Hey there! :)

I've decided that my journal is for whatever I want it to be for. It might be rants about work, about something that has upset me, or something that brightened my day. For that matter, it might be a stream of consciousness brainstorm that I manage to edit into something coherent.

I do friends-lock a lot of my posts, particularly about work (a few of those even get marked as "private", for me only). The world-at-large doesn't really need to know about them.

Hey there, yerself!

There are apparently a few things I haven't picked up yet about how this whole journal thingy works. Ought to be fun, though.

Hiya Denise,

It's been a pleasant realization that I haven't seen anyone here whose presence surprises me, with the possible exception of purpledumbass, though as I think about it it makes a certain sort of sense. D. Reardon would surprise me, for reasons I'm sure you would share.

I do tend to be dreadfully critical of folks who can't seem to be bothered to learn to communicate, in written form or otherwise. We work with our daughter, Kathryn, on saying "yes", "no", and on keeping eye (or at the very least, face) contact when speaking, though at her age (four) it's more about making herself understandable to me, since I don't hear very well. Hopefully someday that will fold into good communication skills. She's already got my sense of humor and timing.

She's already got my sense of humor and timing.

You are certainly going to have an adventure raising her...

D.

Welcome! It's good to see you here since I'm not able to see you elsewhere.

Rebekah

Hi hi hi! I was wondering who that was in that fuzzy 100x100px image; it's difficult to tell when then pics are that small.

This picture may be a little better.

Yeah, I can see that it might be a little bit surprising to see my prescence here... but it was something I kinda stumbled on too...

Welcome to LJ, Bud. I can't recall if I've gotten the chance to chat with you in the past year or so...

As to your original rant about writings and such. I share a lot of the same feelings about obnoxious spelling and punctuation. An odd misspelling here or there is forgivable, but just arbitrary punctuation "where it looks pretty" is a major annoyance.

Ooooooh, much! Likin' that.

Dog shows, eh? Been to a few, helping out a local breeder of schipperkes. We got to be friends with Jammer, a schip from Blue Springs who took Best of Show a couple of years ago; I forget WHICH show. Sweet dog.

Schipperkes are funny looking little dogs- I actually considered getting one until I realized that I really didn't want a dog that wasn't 'wash and wear.'

Here is a good picture of me, not so great of my little guy. I really need to get some more pictures up!

http://imageevent.com/sprkysgrrl/ernie?p=0&n=1&m=24&c=4&l=0&w=4&s=0&z=2

Welcome welcome welcome!!! I'm so happy you've joined the addiction. :)

Missed you!!!!

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Well, what do you know?

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