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Doing Holidailies this year reminds me of a wonderful man I “met” online many years ago through his journal.\u00a0 Some of you who are here through Holidailies may remember him as well.<\/p>\n

Jim of Jim’s Journal <\/a>started writing online way back in 1996.\u00a0 He was a loving father who often bragged about his kids in his posts.\u00a0 His daughter and I aren’t far apart in age.\u00a0 He was also very proud of the fact that he was a bit of an oddity in this online blogging world – at the time of his last post, Jim was 70 years old.\u00a0 I think I started reading his writings sometime around 2000.<\/p>\n

While many of us have taken the easy way out, Jim hand coded his journal, regularly posting updates as links to his main page.\u00a0 Admittedly, that made it hard to follow him in a feed reader, so I wasn’t the best at keeping up with him, but Jim never failed to keep up with me.\u00a0 When I started writing online again, Jim found me through Holidailies, something we had both participated in for many years.\u00a0 And Jim was a regular commenter here on my site.<\/p>\n

His last comment was posted on July 26th<\/a>.\u00a0 He and I had been discussing triathlons, as he was preparing for a sprint himself.\u00a0 He posted about getting ready for it on July 27th<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And then silence.<\/p>\n

I knew something had gone wrong when we didn’t get a glowing race recap from Jim.<\/p>\n

And then a month later, Jim’s family announced that Jim had died<\/a> doing what he loved.\u00a0 According to the news reports, sometime during the swim, Jim had a heart attack and never recovered.<\/p>\n

Jim lived life to the fullest and he died doing what he loved.\u00a0 And so this holiday and Holidailies season, I wanted to remember him.\u00a0 Those of us who have been in the “online journaling” world for a while will remember him fondly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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