I'm getting far enough into this year now that I'm starting to forget some of what I've written about already.  I honestly wouldn't be surprised if at some point during this year I talk about the exact same thing I've already written about.  My mind can sometimes run in patterns without me even realizing it.  I've unintentionally re-used names for characters in stories I've written for instance.  

Sometimes if I re-read something I've written years ago, I'll pretty much have forgotten what happens, so it's sort of like I'm reading it for the first time.  I've noticed I'll often start thinking "Oooo, if I were writing this now I'd make this thing happen."  And then whatever I'm thinking about will happen in the story I already wrote.  I guess my mind runs along the same lines.  I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.  I suppose I'm still me after all these years, for better or for worse.  But I can't help but think I'm well on my way to becoming one of those long-winded old men that tells the same story over and over again.  I wonder if part of the reason that happens though is if you just plain forget a lot of other stuff.  I know I used to have more stories I could tell people about funny things that happened to me, but I've already forgotten a lot of them.  I also used to have a lot more jokes memorized and now if someone asks me to tell a joke, I have to really strain my brain to think of one.  Getting older is awesome!

This may or may not be the last time this year you see an entry more or less exactly like this.