What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

I considered recently, how disappointing it would be if something happened and all these blog entries got lost or something. I’ve been blogging at Mindsay now for almost 2 years – it’s sort of like pieces of my LIFE collected here in this web space!

fairydustings  had another blog once that somehow got deleted or something like that and she lost lots of memories that she had wanted to share with her mom before her death, but wasn’t able to because she could no longer access the blog. My mom too, has expressed interest in being able to read my blog, but she won’t go near a computer unless the mouse is in someone else’s hand. So I decided to collect all my entries and print them in pdf form so she could read them, and also so I would have them, should something ever happen to them. It will require a little editing and I had to print each of my total 76 web pages separately (about 6 entries per web page). When I’ve finished the editing, I’ll combine them all into annual editions and make an e-book out of them…one that can be printed later for my mom to read, and sort of as a keepsake…you know, like an old-fashioned, paper bound journal.

I made a suggestion to aostrow  about conjuring up something that could convert our blogs into bound books so we could have annual collections of our entries. Us “bored, wealthy white kids who have nothing better to do than talk about ourselves” could buy them for our “self-obsessed, incestuous selves” or give them as gifts for family, etc.  (I bet you didn’t know you were a ‘bored, rich white kid,’ did you myclette?!) Better yet, we could BUY them from each other! Wouldn’t it be a hoot to have a printed collection of hester's hilarious antidotes; champy's photographic adventures or misterghoulie's putrid sounding liquor recipes?!

A company called  Blogbinders already offers something like this (for just about every blogging community except OURS), but I guess that making printed blogs available for others to buy could be a little too ambitious  – I could see that stirring up all sorts of legal dilemmas and such. But anyway, just thought I’d throw the idea out there for Adam and all the rest of you guys. And while we’re waiting for someone else to make such a novelty available to us, we can always work on our own e-books, like I did this weekend!