February 6th, 2007

Over the years, I've written in a journal in some form or another, off and on. I haven't exactly been consistant. I started in middle school using a program I wrote on a Commodore 64. That probably continued for a year or two in the late 1980s/early 1990s. A little later in college, I started up again and again using a PC, but this time a program I downloaded. Again, it was probably for a year or two. Then in the 2000s I started again with a more analog approach using actual pen and paper. I've continued ever since though, like I said, I'm not consistent. Sometimes months will go by without me writing anything.

A while back, I posted an entry or two from the earliest phase from files recovered from a Commodore 64 disk. I'll probably continue that at some point but I thought I would post some of the analog stuff in this community. I should also note that I don't do cursive. Not that I can't write in cursive, just that it is pretty unreadable, even to me. I've always had terrible handwriting. I was a solid 'C' student back in the days when I was getting graded on it. The teacher was probably being generous.

This first entry is dated February 6th, 2007 and is a bit boring. It's basically just a checklist of stuff, mostly relating to a master's degree program I was about to start that was paid for by my employer at the time. I think this may actually be before I decided to make the book I was writing in into a journal. Still, it ended up being my very first handwritten journal entry.