Some days I start writing a long entry and then I don’t finish it.  In general, the grander the original idea, the less likely it is to reach these pages. Either it takes too much time and I wake up the next day thinking of something entirely different, or it just does not live up to my grand vision and is quietly stowed away.

I have a small graveyard of such half-finished (or almost-finished) essays. There are similar places on older machines, for it has been that way for years.  Almost certainly I refer to some of them as if I had actually posted them, because it is much easier to remember that I was working on them than whether or not I actually uploaded them.  Hopefully the new system with categories and tags will make it easier to find out whether or not I have posted them – if I am in doubt at all, even when wrong.