Reaching for the Landmarks

Several people I read have or are reaching landmarks. All of them are impressive.

iNina managed to blog for 30 straight days in November. I have attempted such a feat at one point and couldn't quite make it.

Americans Amuck are stepping the blogging scene up with their final goal of 365 blog entries in a single (the first) year. Amazing!

I really can't manage to put a daily blog together. During the summer, I really want to get outside and do stuff. So my hot time to blog is really during the winter. I am very indescriminate about what I blog about. Most of the time it is my observations, things that I think are just wrong, or my own twisted view.

During the past year, I started with my daughters being the only ones to read my ranting. My middle daughter was actually the catalyst to me blogging. She started my wife on it, which made me give it a try. Little did I know how much I would enjoy writing and getting all of this crap in my head out.

During the high life (before summer) I was up to around 1200 readers between Xanga, MySpace and Blogger. Now, I am trimmed to only Blogger and also to a more manageable 3 or 4 regular readers not including my kids.

I am 6 days from my blogging anniversary. Needless to say, I hope to see the 2nd anniversary. Honestly, I didn't think I would continue on after the summer. But once I started writing, it hooked me. So, my landmark is just making it the year. For those of you who really want to know:

186 (including this one) blog entries. 3 more in draft form.
118,977 words written. (damn, now I have to count again...OK, that was before this blog entry)
653,446 characters with spaces.
531,961 characters without spaces. (again, before this entry)

This only counts this blog, not my others.

This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). Thank you. Thank you for reading my blog. I know that not all of you comment and it really doesn't matter.

Did you know...

The word "Blog" meaning to author an online diary or chronology of thoughts, was added to Webster's New Millenium Dictionary in 1999.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Hey, thank you. I started reading when you switched to blogger, and was a little nervous in the summer when you lightened up on the blogging..mainly because I've had several blog favorites that have arbitrarily vanished. Your blog is very entertaining though, it's well written and you've maintained a style. I definitely don't have a style(unless random collection of thoughts is a style), and congrats on a full year!
6:41 PM
Anonymous said…
wow! congrats for blog anniversary bro! I stepped into ur blog somewhere in april-may time frame, and I found ur blog very interesting from the first read. Now become a regular reader and fan for ur blog!
4:33 AM
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