let's say you are blocking drear 20's. almost no one reads it, but 20 years from now you will have children. you can show them what you wrote and they will understand things about you that they might not otherwise. and you want to always say, with writing, even in its most basic form, letter, apollo, and it confers a kind of immortality. we'll have that experience of loving, losing, opening a door and finding a card or letter. still alive. so i think the more writing the better. [inaudible] >> you know, i think regret are things that a good columnist -- and that would like to think m a good columnist -- get out of work they publish. in other words, he's been a fair amount of time has -- at the computer back stopping this up. and you're writing constantly. even when you're writing about events parts of your brain of thinking how will this field engineers. hal unequivocal to want to be about certain things. so i think you do a lot of -- i would not at all call its answering. his more taking the long view. because of that i d