Is anyone out there?

Being new to blogging, I naturally wonder what the point is. I wonder if anyone will ever read this. So if you do, please send me an e-mail at jwkoncape@excite.com. I have made many attempts at keeping a journal on paper, and they usually last only a few weeks. Nevertheless, they are interesting to me, when I go back and read old journals. I hope this blog proves interesting in future years. But will it still be available. I suppose I could always print out a copy and keep it on paper, in case Blogger disappears. It seems rather ephemeral. I plan to ask all my students to keep a blog as practice in writing. I currently ask them to keep a paper journal. I ask them to make a journal of 50 entries of at least 100 words each. Does this device have a word-count feature? Hmmm. I don't see one. Although other blogs do have total words listed, so the technology is here somewhere. The spell checker did not recognize "blogging." It suggested I might mean "flogging"! I love it!