Journal Entry #1142: My Way or the Hemingway

That day I booked the African adventure of a lifetime, and delivered a bunch of jewelry in NYC. Boring takes a detour through the ineffable. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE

Dearest Road2Elsewhereians—

First of all, my apologies for spamming all of you on Saturday, July 22nd. I couldn’t figure out how to put four huge animation files (Space Needle flies! Seals bark! Clams spurt! Mt. Rainier takes umbrage!) into one post, so instead I put one animation into four separate posts. And then I actually sent all of them!On the same day! It caused twenty-three subscribers to run for the hills.

Ooops.

OTOH, it was also my second-biggest day of traffic ever, with 2,300 people clicking those links, so what the hell? It was the best of days, it was the worst of days..

Meanwhile…

For some time now I’ve been meaning to spelunk my daily journals for posts to run in this space.

For those of you joining in late, I’ve been keeping a daily journal…oh, since the beginning of time (October 12, 1978).

I wrote about it here.

I’ve now made journal entries for 16,000+ straight days, and recorded about six million words of experience, noticin…