Five … freaking … years? Wow.
<1930s radio announcer voice>It’s August 24th, 2001, and Dave’s wife is over at Doyce’s house for a bi-weekly RPG game. Doyce has been doing something called a “blog” for a few months now, and Dave’s decided to get into the action. Who, then, can forget these immortal words …
Testing … testing … testing ….
Then, after posting something about how Blogger had blown up twice on him, he started writing about what he wasn’t going to write about, and how it was likely this was all just a flash in the pan …
For one thing, I doubt I’ll be able to maintain a steady stream of discussion. Sure, this has a big advantage over a hardcopy journal, to wit, I can get to it anywhere I can get to an Internet connection. Which makes it a lot more handy than my journal was. Still … my life is busy. And, frankly, when there are people around, I do better writing to them, or talking to them, directly. If I post stuff in my blog, then have to e-mail people saying, “Hey, check out my blog!” … well, that seems a bit redundant.
And the rest … 9,782 posts in this blog alone … is ongoing history. </1930s radio announcer voice>
Wow.
Thanks to my several loyal readers. If people didn’t actually read this stuff, and comment back on it (17,507 comments to date, just in this blog), it would be a lot less likely I’d still be doing it.
Amazing, ain’t it? My fifth year anniversary is in December so you’ve been at this a few months longer than I have. While I’ve got you beat in the number of comments, you’ve been much more productive on entries as I’m only at around 4,300+ at the moment.
Which just goes to show why you’re the successful professional and I’m the aging slacker. 🙂
My 5-year anniversary isn’t until next March, but even 4.485 years of this junk seems like forever! 🙂
Happy Blog-Day, ***Dave!
I’m pretty sure I’ve been reading your blog for 4 of those 5 years, and I’m glad you’ve kept writing and posting.
Oh, and here I was going to say it proved you’d built a thriving community and I was just a chatterbox. 🙂
Thanks, Steve and Solonor.
The idea that I could “see” Dave and the rest of the family every day is a boon to those of us who live far away. It makes the miles seem not quite so far. Congrats!
I agree with Mary, having the blog means those of us who aren’t around you every day get a glimpse of what’s going on in that part of the world.
It’s a big reason I do this — to stay in touch with friends and family far away.
Well, it was your blog I discovered a decade or so after we lost touch, enabling us to renew our old high school friendship!
All together, folks: Awwwwww!
Awwwwww ….
Happy blogiversary!
Thanks!