easy for folks to just skip the entry if they don't care to read that on that particular day.

And easy for people to keep up on what's in my brain without me having to send out three million emails. :)

I love having "banter buddies" - folks who will engage me in my deconstruction of self; alas, they are few and far between.

Yes. I had one for a while, and it was great. But, alas, not recently.

A better sense of self-preservation perhaps

Perhaps. That appears to be something that I'm good at, when I'm at least vaguely sane.