I have come to the slow, painful realization that life is just a sequence of slow, painful realizations.

The latest realization: meggle is the only one who reads this bjönl.So I will not pretend, like in the other bjönl post, that I have so many fans. Quality not quantity thats what I say. I am glad that you have even read it once

I am really glad that I can provide seconds of fun through this bjönl. But this is sad, it is not unlike when I recently looked in my second grade yearbook and found that the only one who signed it was my mother. It said something like "Dear Brian, you are a very special boy and I want you to know that I love you very very much. Love Mommy"  She stopped just short of reassuring me in writing as she had so many times in words that I was "not wierd just different" I have a sneaking suspicion that sometime while I was in college she found that nobody had signed that yearbook and wrote that in.

So thanks meggle, and mommy too. I'm going to give the bjönl a rest now.

a few quick comments about this björnal, because I get a lot of email asking, among other things: why is it called a björnal? how do you make that umlaut thingy on the o? Doesn't the umlaut mean that you don't need the "r" in björnal? and finally "I love your björnal, why don't you update it more often?"

Well first of all, I would just like to let all my fans know what a pleasure it is to receive your emails. I never knew just one björnal post could make me so many friends, so keep 'em coming!

 web log = blog; web journal = björnal

Many many characters can be made simply by holding down the key and pressing a sequence of numbers. To get a "ö" for example is alt 1, 4, 8. hold down alt and press 1 then 4 then 8. I am told this is called HTML
Did I look that character up? no, I just fiddled around until I found it, and that took a while. A list can be found here: http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/ALTchrc.html Ted also has a decent HTML tutorial that's a good reference for doing things like, oh I don't know, writing a björnal

I don't think most English speakers will know how "bjönal" is said.

I am too forgetful and busy playing video games to update this bjö(r?)nal that often.

I know it says "blog" but THIS blog will be called Björnal because if it doesn't work out I can use it as an Ikea furniture piece it will just be cooler that way.

And it looks like there is a very good chance of it not working out, judging from this first post.