Today (September 28, 2025) is the 18th anniversary of the day I started this blog back in 2007.
When I started I had no idea that I would still be at my post (pun intended) all these years later. Yet here we are, I writing and you reading.
The thingamajig over there in the sidebar shows that I have 140 followers, but most of them are no longer actively participating. There are only a few of you who comment regularly nowadays, but I am not deterred by that fact. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. Oh, wait, that was Nick at the end of The Great Gatsby.
Some of my early readers are dead and I know it—Dr. John Linna of Neenah, Wisconsin, for exampe, and good old Putz who was really David Barlow out in Utah—and some just faded away like General Douglas MacArthur after he was fired by Predident Harry Truman. And some, I'm sure, took one look and left for greener pastures immediately.
There will be no balloon drop, no blasting of celebratory horns, no high-kicking chorus line. Just a moment of quiet reflection and gratitude for good times gone by and good times yet to come, shared witn an audience I've never met.
Thank you, current crowd (among whom are Janice, Emma, Kylie, Ellen, Terra, Graham, Keith, Tasker, and until she disappeared without explanation, Rachel). We few, we happy few, we band of bloggers.
Year 19 is about to begin. Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines!
Congratulations, and here's to many more years of tantalising blog posts.
ReplyDeleteIn mythology, Tantalus was doomed to eternal hunger and thirst! I do hope you have found or will find my efforts on this blog a bit more satisfying.. In other words, I appreciate your intended compliment but another adjective mighthave been better! Nevertheless, thank you, Janice!
DeleteVroom, vroom. Happy anniversary.
ReplyDeleteWe will be at the checkered flag before you know it. Thank you, Emma.
DeletePS Year 2007 was the year I started blogging too. This recent hiatus has been a blot on my record!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you sent this second comment, Graham, because I deleted the first one accidentally. However, I was able to retrieve the text of it in my email and here it is:
Delete"Graham Edwards has left a new comment on your post "Happy Blogaversary to me":
A lot of my original readers are long gone too. I apologise for my tardy attendances recently. Life has been getting in the way."
and my reply would have been:
I knew I shouldn't start naming names because I might leave someone out inadvertently. Your name was not left out on purpose. Shame on me. I will now go add you into the list.
Thank you, Graham.
And my reply to your PS:
There is no blot on your record. You are now and always have been one of the good guys. Thank you, Graham.
28 years! more than half my life. You don't do things by halves, Robert :)
ReplyDeleteI just realized/realised that our little community of bloggers is/are no good at math/maths (being bilingual is tedious at times). That is, 2025 minus 2007 does not equal 28 years, it equals 18 years. I didn't catch it and neither did anyone else so far! I will go back and correct the post immediately! The part that applies to you is that 18 years is NOT more than half your life! Thank you, kylie!
DeleteI did wonder if blogger had been around that long and actually I think even Google is younger than 28 but I didnt follow up!
DeleteI’ll tell you how long 28 is. 28 is the number of years since Mrs. RWP retired from her RN position at a local hospital. In fact, it has now been 28.5 years, even longer! Google, put that in your pipe and smoke it! I think I may be losing my grip, which is not the same thing as losing my grippe. Thank you, kylie.
DeleteHappy Blogaversary to you. That's a great achievement! Keep up the good work! :)
ReplyDeleteNow that I have corrected the post to read 18 years instead of 28 years, it may not sound like so great an achievement after all, but it is still noteworthy. Sheer stick-to-it-iveness has to count for something, right?. If I do manage to make it to 28 years of blogging, I will be 94 by then. Thank you, Ellen!
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