i love your journaling, by the way. you have a great ear for dialogue. good narrative structure too. are you a writer or have you considered writing anything?
Ryepatch. Thank you much for the compliment. I am an engineer; math was my subject. I never enjoyed nor did well in writing. However, I have found it soothing to do it here.
I believe my lack of writing skills is the reason I try to recollect the dialogue. Its easier to just write down the phrases that were said than trying to describe the jist of the conversation.