I wonder if I should put more autobiographical material here. They say that years later you'll appreciate the record of events, the daily minutiae. While I value minutiae, I don't see any reason to favor one day's minutiae over another's. I mean, once I've written about what I had for breakfast, there's no reason to ever do it again, unless it changes drastically, like if I suddenly acquired a taste for venison in the morning. Similarly, the fact that I tried a new brand of coffee would only be notable if I tried it on the day that changed the course of history, say, like the day Tokyo was consumed by fire ants. Then when someone said, "everyone in our generation remembers what they were doing the moment they heard the news about such and such," I could think, yes, I remember that day. As recorded here, that was the day I got new shelf paper and struggled to install it in my cupboards. What a hassle!

By associating shattering world events with insignificant personal ones, the shattering world events are put into human perspective, and the insignificant personal ones are raised to the level of Moments in History. This is why blogs are so useful and appreciated, you get to be exposed to terrible writing as well the utter obliteration of all perspective and proportion. In one paragraph, people run the gamut from discussing events of great importance to the most tedious daily happenings. Just heard about that new plague that you get just by looking at someone who has it. OMG how awful. Taco Bell today, my chalupa was gross.