(Click on a year above to get started)
Better to write for yourself and have
no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly, critic and
editor (1903-1974)
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Helen Terry
A Little History
I started writing this Journal to entertain my mother when she was sick... I
would type it up and mail it to her in Milwaukee, I experimented with an online
web authoring site called Tripod and started posting it on the Net... and then I
told some friends and family about it... when my mom got too sick to live alone
she moved to Scottsdale and moved in with my sister... so my sister could print
it out for her... Cool...
My mother passed away in June of '99... in the back of my mind I am still
writing to her... and to my sisters and kids and onetime or another to everyone
I put on my list...a pretty eclectic bunch composed of family, friends,
"cousins" I have met doing genealogy and ex co-workers from my 30
years at Pacific Bell...(Now SBC)
I got this e-mail on the 8th of June, my reply seems to cover fairly concisely what my site is all about:
Pete,
I have a personal list of Australians and friends. Total is around 70 people. I thought I would post your link to the list, but am wondering how to introduce it.
Can you write something for me thanks.
Glenn...
Jeeze… I have no idea what to write… the implication that there is a grand scheme behind my ramblings is flattering and intimidating at the same time.
My WebPage is just a Diary/Journal and a collection of things that interest me, I put it on the Internet because it’s a convenient way for me to communicate with friends and family. I tell the truth, (not always the whole truth) but what you see here is the unvarnished and real, oft-times boring truth. One nice thing about the Internet is that you can read about what is going on in my little world… or not… I will never know.
It is also my personal reaction to the passion for privacy and anonymity and paranoia everywhere on the Net; I put my life out into the cyberworld for anyone to look at. Come what may…
Enjoy it… or not.
Pete Daggett
I have been logging my activities and random thoughts since November of 1998.
I guess this whole exercise is primarily for my benefit... posterity certainly couldn't care less. I had the revelation a few
years back that the fella who said that; "An infinite number of
monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters would eventually duplicate all
the written works of man"... is being proven correct, it's happening now on the Internet I am
sure that somewhere someone has already published the true meaning of life and unlocked
the mystery of creation... the trouble is... no one noticed because no one can
find the URL.
