Who'da Thunkit?
I don't even understand LiveJournal, and now I have one. Well, why? Live and learn. I could never see the point of having both a general-interest weblog AND a LiveJournal, even though some of my favorite people do. But the clue stick descended on my head recently, and this seems like a good solution to a current problem: I'm entered in the 2004 Marine Corps marathon as half of the "Gym Set" team with your Talking Dog, Seth G. Farber Esq. I want a place to put training notes in detail, but don't want "fitness blogging" to overwhelm Unqualified Offerings, my "large main blog." This way I can put multiple fitness entries per week up with just a single weekly pointer from UO. I'll probably also unburden myself of the occasional personal gaming comment and maybe some hardcore, brief comics thoughts.

Anyway, I want to be a good LiveJournal citizen, but I am strictly from out of town, so please be patient with me as a learn the local folkways (e.g. how and why one "friends" people and what it means and other stuff I probably don't even know about yet. I'm on the free account now, though I may upgrade at some point. I'm not even sure if these rich text-option URLs I pasted in have worked, since I don't see anything different after I add them.

And of course, I'll be mucking with the style a lot early on, within the limits free status sets.

UPDATE: Nope. Had to add the Talking Dog link by hand. Let's see if THAT works . . .

UPDATE2: Seems to. But what's the point of all those lovely formatting icons?

UPDATE3: Okay, this is going to take some getting used to. No biggie!