I go to the gym. I ride an alleged twenty miles on the exercise bike which takes a little over fifty minutes. Let me say that this bike has 'resistance' settings from zero to twelve. I always start on one then go to two. I'll go to three for a few minutes here and there then back to two. So I imagine that if this is anything like actual biking it is like biking on virtually flat ground. Just so you know. I use a mat to do a few ab exercises. I hate them. But you knew that.

While on the bike, I think of a new way to organize my journal. See...I write everything in here (excepting intimate stuff and stuff I forget, subject to the day's artbitrary mores and memory). Everything I can think of that I eat or drink, what exercise I do. I write down conversations I remember, what I read, how I spend my time. If I have a few paragraphs of coherent thought, I throw that in. If I'm in a good mood or bad or have a health issue, I might mention it.

Of course, the left column has been given over to a visual of some sort, perhaps shot the day of the entry, perhaps not, perhaps stolen, perhaps not. Sometimes pix appear in this column, too. There is the quote feature (sometimes they are relevant even). And Just Typing where free verse meats free range chicken. (Actually, this is where I use the keyboard as therapy.)

So, what I'm getting at is, I'm wondering if all my readers (all two or three of you) will be better served and, indeed, if I'll be better served later if I do institute further categories on each day's page.

What I'm thinking is this. Each day would have a food and drink diary, a chronology (where did the time go), a reading report, a writing report, an exercise journal and a mood and health info. Finally, if I actually had a coherent thought of a paragraph or two, I could write that. What a boon this would be to readers. Hate reading about organ meat? Ignore the food diary. Don't give a whit about how many minutes I ride the exercise bike? Never touch the excersie report.

In point of fact, I have spared my readers for some time having to know day after day what the talking scale said to me. (Yes, I have a talking scale. You turn it on with your toe, it tells you to push your memory number and you do (with your toe) and you climb aboard. It says, "You weight is...whatver." Then if you've gained or lost since you last visited it mentions that. They it says, "Have a nice day." And I generally record this info here but I've stuck it away where it doens't bother anyone.