I got back into Zach’s journals today. I had catalogued them from 2012 through 2014 a few months ago but quailed at the thought of doing it for his last years’ of writing.<\/p>\n
Well, today I did it. I now have a spreadsheet with a year entered on whatever date he wrote. I mean, I can look in the spreadsheet for a particular date and see in what year he wrote on that date. For example, there were no entries for this date but there was one on December 23rd in 2013. Once again I make no promises about how often or how much I will republish but I have been able to think about it more recently.<\/p>\n
I was just wrapping up when I took one last look through the folder that has all the files. Wait a minute – there are a bunch from 2010 and 2011! So that was another hour. There’s a lot of stuff there. I’m pretty amazed that I’ve been able to look through it today without totally breaking down. I have a headache, but I’m pretty calm.<\/p>\n
OK, here’s a paragraph from Zach’s December 23, 2013 entry:<\/p>\n
\nI got up Saturday morning and got new tires on my car ($492); I had only been putting that off for 18 months. \u00a0It took quite awhile, despite me having a 730a appointment, but I ended up just sitting there and reading in the waiting room, which was pretty nice. \u00a0Time well spent. \u00a0I then went to Barnes and Noble, with two objectives–one, because Matt gave me a gift card and I had it in my mind that I would buy the new Gladwell book with it, and then have Matt borrow\/read it after the new year. \u00a0I also wanted to read the third Divergent book, which came out earlier this fall. \u00a0Once I got there, I browsed around a bit, just to see what was there, which was always fun. \u00a0Then, I started reading the Divergent book and struggled with it, partially because I was uncomfortable reading it there in the story and partially because I couldn\u2019t recall all the characters and the events of the second book, probably because I binge read it late at night over a weekend. \u00a0And then thirdly, the third book just wasn\u2019t really grabbing me and was kind of frustrating, so I stopped after about 70 pages or so. \u00a0I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll eventually finish it but I couldn\u2019t really get engrossed. \u00a0Then, I started over-thinking the purchase of a book–I felt weird buying a book, even with a gift card, and actually left the store and walked out to my car before going back in and buying the book. \u00a0I think I just felt weird about buying a book, and all I could think about was moving it when the time comes! \u00a0Crazy.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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