Wehr's Private Parts

I count six (6) people who have recently said (referring to this blog) something to the effect of “less goofy garbage, more personal stuff, please.”

I expect that from Bob, but from other people it came as a bit of a surprise. What twisted reasons do you have for wanting to hear about my shit?

Here’s the thing: If you really want to hear about my shit, I’d actually like to tell you about it. Well, some of you. And that’s precisely the problem.

The problem is that a lot of the personal stuff either (a) directly or indirectly involves other people, and so it would be more than a little uncouth to write about that stuff publicly, or (b) is not stuff I’d be comfortable having certain people read.

So the workaround I’m going to try is a private blog. (Motto: “A personal blog so personal it’s private.”) If Wehr in the World is my heady, intellectual, nerdy blog, this private one is going to be my emotional, introspective, wimpy blog. It will allow me to ramble on about what the eff I’m doing with my life and what the eff life is doing with me without feeling like a jerk for airing my laundry where random people can smell it.

No faceless audience allowed. I get to choose who’s allowed to read it, and that’s only going to be an elite few.

Most people who write personal blogs are writing for their family and (real-world) friends. I want to do just the opposite. Mom and Dad, I love you, but you’re not invited. Same goes for pretty much anyone who knows me in flesh. I wouldn’t be able to complain about you if I knew you might be reading. I’m (mostly) joking, but seriously, you people who know me in flesh are pretty much the definition of my life, and it’d be hard to write about life if I knew life was reading.

If you want in (and honestly it’s hard for me to understand why you would; this is going to be oppressively petty stuff), plop your email address in the box below. This is no guarantee that you will be granted access (in fact, assume you won’t). If I don’t recognize your name/email, then you’ll probably want to explain who you are and why you want access, because I’m not going to give it to any random sailor.