Yes, I keep a journal.  I’ve been keeping one off-and-on for the better part of 17 years.

Recently, while packing, I started going through all my old boxes and found my various journals from over the years.  I actually found a journal that took up two binders where I wrote every day in 1990. I knew that I wrote that year but did’t remember that it was every day.  Not only did I write, but I had tabs for each month and a monthly index at the beginning of each tab as a breif overview of the month.  Man, was I organized in grade 10.

My current journal efforts consist of writing every couple of days in a wonderful book that my Grandmother gave me almost ten years ago. I liked the book so much that I didn’t want to spoil it by writing in it.  It wasn’t until about three years ago that I found the maker of the book (Lee Valley Tools) and bought a bunch more that I felt confident enough to start writing in it.  So far, the first book has the last three years in it.  At this rate, I have enough of these books to last the next 35 years or so.

So, here’s my delema. How do you write a journal that will last a thousand years? I have no illusions about my writing skill and I definately don’t have anything so interesting happening to me that would be of particular interest to the world, but I would like to have something stick around for a while. For the last few months, I’ve been doing research on various techniques and products that I could use to keep my bland, spelling challenged writing around for generations. 

I figure’d I’d share my findings.  

More to come…

~ Jason