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\"\"In 1984 I started what ultimately became I guess part of my life\u2019s work\u2014unbeknownst to me.\u00a0 I bought a notebook at a stationary shop on the west side of upper Madison Avenue, probably in the upper 80\u2019s,\u00a0about three blocks away from my apartment in NYC.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t special.\u00a0 It was just a notebook and on December 31, 1983 I started writing in it–daily.\u00a0 Again nothing special, just where I went, what I did, the weather, what I ate, what I heard, what I saw.\u00a0 There was never anything, “dark night of the soul” about the contents.\u00a0 It was a daily account of my daily days, good, bad, fun, boring, dull, dramatic, but not merely jotted down, rather a fairly full and carefully composed (for the most part) out line of my day with random thoughts and observations.<\/p>\n

During those 34 years, I dated, I got married, I had three children, I met scammers and con men, faced financial ruin, rid a house of bats, stymied conmen and scammers, started a business or two, made maps, wrote books, gave numerous presentations on Civil War Maps and Mapmaking culminating in a nationally broadcast presentation on C-Span BookTV. \u00a0I used my wits, held a couple of political offices, wrote a few songs, served on some interesting boards, read a lot of books, wrote and published a few articles, \u00a0played guitar on the street, broke my leg\u2014a compound fracture\u2014and my wrist in Carcassonne, and stayed in touch with friends some of whom I had since childhood.<\/p>\n

This year I got the flu right after the New Year and in my flu stupor I pronounced to my family that I was quitting, what I call, my daybook.<\/p>\n

They would not allow it \u2013 \u201cDad,\u201d they said, in unison.\u00a0 \u201cYour day book is not for you anymore\u2014it\u2019s for us.\u00a0 You cannot stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

I agreed.<\/p>\n

I thought about it\u2026.how many people can account on a day to day basis for everything they\u2019ve done for 34 years, 1 month \u2026.and counting?\u00a0 That\u2019s 300,000 hours, 12,500 days and 1,786 weeks.<\/p>\n

So over the course of the next few weeks, months, whatever, I plan to post some of my daybook entries.\u00a0 I will just use initials for most of the people I came in contact with \u2013 except maybe the con men, they might not remain nameless\u2014we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

And stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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