» On 4/04/2026 12:05:00 AM Mountain Standard Time, Alan wrote:
Q: Who became a blogger 30 years ago today?  

A: I started hand-coding an online personal journal in early 1996, before the term "weblog" or "blog" was coined (late 1997), and long before automatic blogging software was invented (1998). Between 4/4/1996 and 9/22/2001, regular installments of "The Snoozeletter" appeared in cyberspace, on the now-defunct apc.net/ia subdomain. The journal transitioned over to Blogger's content management system in early 2004, at snzltr.blogspot.com (initially, the 9TimeZones.com/s subdomain).

As you can see, I had a quaint idea of what the navigation links should look like, with the oldest entry on top. 😉

 
» On 4/01/2026 12:00:00 AM Mountain Standard Time, Alan wrote:
Hand Dynamometer. 

Every month, during my Myasthenia Gravis clinical trial (research study) appointment, the docs administer physical tests, and one of them measures grip strength. Since my right arm is still pretty banged up from the recent humerus surgery, today's reading was quite low. And my left arm is non-dominant, so that reading was kind of crappy, too. That's when my lovely wife saw an opening and jumped right in. She asked for a reading on her right arm, and, of course, she beat me.

Have I mentioned that she's super-competitive?

And that she cheats?! 😉

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