Why?

I always thought blogs were for egomaniacs, for attention whores and exhibitionists... And here I go...

But lately I've been more and more overwhelmed with the Web; the twenty minutes it took me to surf and read through my favorite sites became an hour and then suddenly all day - The list of things I wanted to keep track of and learn more about became longer and longer. I am not a natural techie, and for awhile I was intrigued by the idea of RSS, but I didn't get it beyond the fact that it meant my news would come to me. I still don't get it, but I am more convinced that I have to do something drastic to start organizing myself better. I get from the blogger help how to send mine OUT, but how do I get stuff to come home? (I am not a natural organizer either, in spite of my chosen career...) So I am hoping that this will be more of an organizer for me than the quasi-journalism and brag books that many blogs seem to be. This will be my kinda homebase.

"Two Straight Lines" means a lot of things to me. Mostly it is from one of my earliest reading (learning) memories: My dad used to read to me and I memorized (read?) this part: "In a small house in Paris, all covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. In two straight lines they...." (and they did a whole lot of stuff, brushing their teeth, washing their faces, etc. They were ORGANIZED!) And reading and learning are why I get up every day. Oh, and to let the dogs out and to make Kathryn's lunch, that's another good reason or two to get up.