It’s a good thing that Thanksgiving is between Halloween and Christmas (at least in the States it is). Acts as a buffer and gives the two extremes a bit of breathing room. The turkey always gets it in the end anyway despite his intentions to make peace.
Hmmm… this might work well for this years’ “Happy Holidays” card.
7:08:31 AM PM - I keep having these dreams that I went back to my old job, and my old house that I lived in when I was 12. Why do I keep having these?
9:58:38 AM - Just figured out how to wrangle the text boxes in Illustrator. Switching from Freehand to Illustrator has been very painful.
2:54:52 PM - It’s so hard to hear Camille screaming and throwing a fit upstairs and stay detached so that I can work. Poor Jen.
4:15:22 PM - The kids just got home from school and are watching Arthur on PBS while Jen is at a PTA meeting. Aurthur’s a great babysitter until I’m done working.
4:25:55 PM - Arthur’s not doing so great. Camille is at my heals begging me to stop working.
Needless to say, I’m a fan of Twitter, and I add “tweets” all the time. For those of you not familiar with Twitter, I suggest you go HERE to find out what it’s all about, and you’d never really understand it until you try it.
But in a nutshell, its global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? You have a 140 character limit, making sure you don’t write an epistle, rather just a quick note.
While writing several “tweets”, or Twitter entries, the other day, I thought, “Hey, I’m practically writing in a journal for all to see!” (Yeah, I’m a bit dense, but I figured that out all on my own). “What if some journaling software had a widget where I could add small, time-stamped entries to my journal without actually opening up the program, adding an entry, adding a time stamp, but do all that as quickly as I can with Twitter through Twitterrific?” I asked myself (I work alone).
My question didn’t go unanswered! But I had to ask around first. I went to Journler’s site and asked the community there. I was quickly answered by “NovaScotian”, an AppleScript genius. He said that no such widget existed, but until then I could use a quick AppleScript he wrote for Journler. He didn’t have it already, he created it then and there, and tweaked it to my wishes!
So, now all I have to do is click on the AppleScript icon in the menu bar, select Journler, and a little window pops up for me to write my “tweet”, hit enter, and it does all the dirty work for me! All my “tweets” are entered into a daily journal, with a time stamp just like the entries at the beginning of this blog entry.
I would never write the details shown above if I waited to write a normal journal entry. I would have forgotten, or just thought they were too trivial to write, yet now I have a vivid record of what life’s really like around the Bruner household. No worrying about grammar, no trying to schedule in journal time. Just write as it happens, and I have the best journal I’ve ever had.
If you’re interested in doing the same thing, go purchase Journler, and look at this forum topic to get the code and instructions.