Why do I have to get boring as I get older? in Adventures in paradise

So I’ve been very lucky with copying my old OD entries over. All my old photo links no longer work on the entries, on top of the formatting being all over the damn place. It’s all in HTML or something or CSS and I’m thankful that I can copy and paste the entries, but Prosebox doesn’t recognize the code, so I’m painstakingly going through and deleting all the old formatting between the words I’ve written.
I’ve gotten lucky in the way that I managed to find some of the old photos that went with the old entries. Back in the day, I had a shitty little camera (which I still have around somewhere) and I used to have to copy that to my computer as a file and then upload to Snapfish (back in the day). Snapfish must’ve died or deleted my photos or whatever, but after a lot of searching through an old hard drive, I came across the photos! So on top of re-editting the OD entries into here, I’ve been figuring out which photos go with which caption whilst reading back through the entries, and so far I think I’m doing pretty well!

I seriously can’t believe my luck, because I thought a) that the entries themselves had all disappeared and b) that the photos were only linked via the now-dead Snapfish links. Both problems have been solved!

So it’s taking a bit of time, but I am getting there gradually. It’s kind of nice to be doing this in this freezing weather, but it can take me hours just to do a few entries. However, the old entries now look how they used to and aren’t just blank-picture links. Unfortunately I don’t have all photos for all entries (haha that’d be pot luck!) so some entries don’t really make sense and the text will have to do.

God, if Prosebox decides to go down the same path as OD, then I’ll be pretty pissed :P

I tell you what though. My life was SO much more exciting 9 years ago! I’m reading back through these gradually, so so thankful that I wrote entries and didn’t hold back on anything back in the day, because even I can’t believe some of the things I used to write and do. I wasn’t that bad of a boyfriend after all! I was a good friend to people too.
What the hell has happened to me??
I suppose they say to live while you’re young. I have a bad memory, so re-reading these has been really cool, and piecing together the picture files together onto Prosebox with the old entries has been pretty damn awesome so far. But I still have a long way to go.

I’ve typed over my ‘96 - ‘99 entries from my hand-written diaries, so I’m thankful I only really need to edit the OD ones, but have so far completed ‘04 and ‘05 (of which I’ve lost any pic links :( ) and am so far copying over ‘06.
You know, when my life started to get interesting and not as boring as it is nowadays.
And I had a pretty healthy following on OD as well, compared to here. I’m very thankful for the few who moved over to here and I eventually followed them over also, but it makes me sad I’ve lost contact with so many other fascinating diarists. So if you’re a former OD’er (the diarist kind, not the drug kind :P ), thankyou for allowing me to continue reading you.

And can someone explain THIS to me? I go to it and it LOADS the old OD site, with all the links seemingly working. I haven’t tried logging in though. I guess I just didn’t realize that old sites were achieved like this. Pretty cool to see, but a shame I can’t seem to see my old diary on there, even when searching.

I did have a bit of a think about it (my younger years) though. I was only paying like $60-100 a week in rent back then, and that’s pretty much doubled these days, plus I don’t have a car anymore and I guess I have different priorities in my older age.

Back then I was working 10 hour days, going to parties after work and THEN going out clubbing, getting home at 5am the next day!

I think about doing that now and my brain is screaming at me.

Why do I have to get boring as I get older?

Last updated July 13, 2015