The Blurty chronicles

This morning, one of my browser bookmarks caught my eye. Impulsively, I went *click*.

Instantly, I was taken back in time, to an old friend. Blurty.

Blurty.com. It's a blogging service that I was on a few years ago. It's the first blog I used more than once. Not that I was consistent. It was more of an online diary than anything else, and I'm not aware of anybody ever reading any of my posts. Consequently, I think I was fairly open and honest on Blurty.

Blurty never left. I did. I did a few posts there in 2003, didn't do any writing for 15 months or so. Came back in 2004. Left again. In 2005, I learned about ModBlog, and that took things in a whole new direction. Something new: People reading what I wrote. Who would have thought?

You will be glad to know that Blurty looks just the same as it did back in '03, and my posts haven't changed, either. They are all there, and I'm planning to copy them and repost them here. When I do, I will put "Blurty" in the title. Maybe "The Blurty Chronicles" or something like that.

The reposts here, though, will be a little different. I had JPG images from back then that I couldn't/didn't know how to post. I still have the images, and they will be inserted at appropriate points in the story.

I plan to repost the Blurty entries exactly as they were--no changes outside of correcting typos. I will also change the date of the posts to match the date they were originally posted. But there will also be an introduction and epilogue with many of them, to explain or give context to certain things that come up in the story.

I think when you read them, you will be amazed at how similar they are to my posts now. The stuff I do, what concerns me and frustrates me. "The more things change ..."

So, like the Firesign Theatre once said, "Forward ... into the past!"