Saving your AOL journal to your computer

Go to THIS SITE and do what it says, beginning with the download of Backstreet Browser (it's free). Be patient once you start, because if you've been journaling for awhile, it's going to be downloading for quite a while.

Oh, and this doesn't save your pictures, since they are stored on AOL FTP space. All my pictures are on my computer anyhow... so I didn't lose them entirely, I just lost them from my journal.

I tried accessing some of the downloaded files with my DSL turned off, and there was my journal! It hasn't finished downloading, but I got back as far as May of this year.

It's still a little sad

I've read two really touching posts back at AOL journals... goodbye entries, so to speak.

If you've a mind to, go check them out:

Lone Star Concerto

and

Saturday's Child.

Welcome, AOL blogging friends

I began blogging on AOL Journals. It was there, it was handy, and I'm too lazy to do anything except go with the flow. I met amazing people there, and watched some blog while they were dying. A time came when there was yet another glitch with the program, and I decided AOL wasn't going to last forever. I decided to move to Blogger.

Trouble is, many of my old AOL journal buddies wouldn't read my Blogger site; they seemed to think I was a turncoat for leaving. So I kept two blogs going, because I didn't want to lose track of my buddies; I've done this for a couple years now, randomly putting one post here, a different one on AOL.

But one morning this week, I saw the following notice at the top of my blog:

And there was much weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth in what had come to be known as "J-Land".

AOL is working with Blogger for a way to transfer AOL journals seamlessly over here. If they get that done, I'll transfer all that to a separate blog and keep it for memory's sake; I'll keep my daily ramblings right here. Actually, this is a good thing, for me. Now I can put all my drivel in one spot. Those of you who have only been reading this blog, get ready for about twice as many entries. Or not.

Meanwhile, Meatloaf and Secret are enjoying the lovely October weather. (Hey, AOL friends: You can click on pictures here to see them larger.)

I rode Blue down to the Missouri River yesterday; looks a little low, to me.

There's an ocean of soybeans not quite ready for harvest-time. I love this time of year.

As I write this, it's 41 degrees. It's true what everyone has been telling me: Hot tubs feel best when it's nippy outside!