Day 8

Today's task was to start a journal. This was an easy one for me because I have been journaling on a reasonably consistent basis for about two years. I have used notebooks, text files, e-mail drafts, and this very blog to record my thoughts. All combined, I don't think I've gone much more than a month without an entry, and usually less. Brett, however, recommends journaling every day. So today was my first day of daily notebook journaling. I had to put some thought into the decision of whether to keep my daily journal on paper or on a hard drive. The latter has definite advantages, like speed of writing and ease of searching, which I do not want to give up completely. I will continue typing the occasional .txt entry, and of course will maintian my blog. But it's nice to be free from the distractions of a computer both when reading and writing a journal, and so away from it I shall stay every night before I go to bed.