Here are the top non-U.S. world leaders in my 1986-2000 index:

1. Adolf Hitler... 4.5 lines in the index
Boris Yeltzin... 4.5
3. Saddam Hussein... 4
4. Mikhail Gorbachev... 3.5
5. Jesus... 3
Fidel Castro... 3
7. Pope John Paul II... 2.5
8. Yasir Arafat... 2
Margaret Thatcher... 2
10. Tony Blair... 1.5
Kim Jong Il... 1.5
Slobadan Milosovic... 1.5
Mao Zedong... 1 ( Read more... )

I recently went thru my journal index from 1986 through to 2000.... and I found that the majority of famous people in the index were either U.S. politicians or Music Artists.... These were my main interests in the world.

Here's the top 10 U. S. politicians:

1. Bill Clinton... 26 lines in the index
2. George H. W. Bush... 19
3. Ronald Reagan... 13
4. Al ( Read more... )

The Top Ten Things that were in my Journal Index from 1986 to 2000 (ie subjects that were non-places and non-people):

1. Poems / Poetry... 9 lines in the index
2. Television... 8
3. Blacks / African Americans... 7
Drugs... 7
5. Iran-Contra Scandal... 6.5
6. Christmas... 5.5
Football (American)... 5.5
Marriage... 5.5
9. AIDS... 5
Republicans... 5

I do like counting things... and I took it upon myself recently to see what the most popular entries were in my journal index covering the years 1986 thru 2000.

Here are the most popular locations (ie places) in my journal index, listed with the number of lines taken up in the index...

9 lines.... New York City, UMass, United States

7.5... Scotland

7 ( Read more... )

1. Elections, 44 pages mentioned
2. Coronation Street (TV show) 42
3. Television 34
4. Holidays 30
5. Albums (music) 27

1. United States, 56 pages mentioned in
2. Dumfries 39
3. Scotland 30
4. New York City 25
5. Russia 22

Here are the (famous) people mentioned most in my journal of the year 2000, which I just recently finished the index on...

1. George W. Bush, on 68 pages
2. Al Gore, Jr. 52
3. Beatles 31
4. Bill Clinton 30
5. John Lennon 19
6. Robert Burns 17
John McCain 17
Paul McCartney 17
Rolling Stones 17
10. Bob Dylan 13
Adolf Hitler 13

Al Gore beat out G W Bush in the ( Read more... )

I have a hardcopy physical journal of 157 volumes since 1986.... and I occasionally fill out an index. Recently I finished the index for the year 2000.

After doing that, I always analyse what things are in the index and then select three things to go into a sort of Index Hall of Fame.... One Person, one Place and one Thing.

So, for the year 2000, ( Read more... )

And now....  here are some life events from my journal back in Spring 2002...  in a continuing effort to chronicle them, slowly but surely:

March 2002

- Christmas, the guinea pig, dies.

- Linda and I go to see the musical Godspell in Edinburgh.

- The Queen Mum dies.

April 2002  -  Linda and I have a two night stay in Stratford-upon- ( Read more... )

A look at some of the things in my journal back in February 2002 ( Read more... )