Demarcation

This is my first actual blog post.

Every post in this blog before this one has been copied here from an awkward, terse text file on my Palm Pilot, where I had been keeping rough notes on Claire's various milestones and adventures. "At least," I thought, "this way I can record stuff about Claire when it happens, and someday I will go back, clean the text up, and put it somewhere, uh, better."

Well, behold... the future is now! I have just realized, only a few short years into the blogging craze, that a blog is the perfect place to chronicle Claire's early years.

I had completely forsaken blogs until recently. Blogs do still make me think of slanted and ugly political non-journalism, meaningless rumor sites, or blogs about other bloggers. But after using a blog at work to track how to charge my time, I realized that a blog is the perfect place to chronicle Claire's early years (until she can handle this herself) because:

• It's a date-based record.
• I can add a few notes from anywhere with internet access.
• It's automatically backed up (somewhere).
• It's free.
• I already had an account through google; no new account necessary.
  

Anyways, this is a blog about Claire, not about blogging. Man, this is the absolute worst kind of blog post, the lowest of the low... a blog about blogging. Excuse me while I slap myself.

In my defense, I just wanted to add an entry to sort of demarcate the "old stuff" and the "new stuff". So here you go. Now back to Claire and the fun stuff.