hornblog 1.0 archive

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I haven't figured out how to link my previous blog site,
or how to import the 80+ postings, so for now,
you can link back to my original HornBar
through the above link.

hornblog 2.0

(this was my first post from my first blog in August of 2007---jbh)

My brother, Kirk, says I've been a blogger for years. I think that's ok. I started keeping some kind of journal back in 6th grade, although the content wasn't all that memorable. In high school, Mrs. Shoe, our creative writing teacher, and "that teacher" who hosted chili, hot dog, and Euchre partries for clean fun on the weekends got us to start keeping more serious journals. I've kept one going rather continuously, if not sporadically, since then, which would've been around 1978.

My journal has evolved over the years into a combo-platter of journal/scrap-book. I made up a new word for it...Scrapnal. I'm not entirely certain what this has to do with starting an international blog, except to say that I've been trying to lay down my thoughts somewhere for years. Sadly, writing by hand and pen became too tedious at some point, so I drifted away from any real subtantial literal downloading onto paper. Hand cramps would've kept me from being a good, Bible translating monk.

Email changed everything.

I discovered email in 2001, and it has become my favorite way to download from the Jay-brain. It absolutely was a critical tool that helped me process through, and recover from my divorce. Oftentimes now, I'll generate an email to friends and family, and cut and paste the text into my Scrapnal. On the page next to the menu from that restaurant. or the ticket stub.

My Aunt Rosemary likes my emails enough that she keeps asking when I'm going to write that book that she knows is in me. I imagine my friends cringe when they get an email from me, cuz they know my proclivity for the e-novellette. But no one has actually complained yet.

Debbie's daughters have cool blogs, and after perusing them, I thought I'd like to have a go at one, and see where it took the J-brain. Maybe my regular emails won't be as lengthy. or maybe not.

so now I'll have to see if I can print this text, and paste it into my Scrapnal. Across the page from the menu from King Gyro on Nichol.

word.....jb