Funny how time flies isn’t it? One day it’s yesterday and all of a sudden it’s four years later, this past year being the quickest of all.
It really hit me when I finished renewing this site for the fourth time. Okay, so the archives only go back as far as February of 2006 but that doesn’t count the posts I lost during my transitions between the old Blogger blog and doing-it-myself with a few month stop at Wordpress.com to catch my breath—moving the blog was tough in those days.
Then, four years ago apparently, I ended up here and have been posting ever since. Never did straighten out the links in the sidebar during all that time nor did I weed out the categories as much as I wanted to but the site has worked pretty well nonetheless, more or less.
I wandered into this blunderland of DIY WordPress blogging before there was anything like tags or threaded comments and the like. There were none of the must-have type plugins available back then like XML Sitemaps, Simple Tags, All-In-One-SEO or even Subscribe to Comments. The WordPress theme directory was a whole different site in those days then it disappeared altogether.
It was pretty much a mind boggling, code-your-own type of world that had a habit of scaring the living bejesus out of the beginner (remember the venerable Ultimate Tag Warrior?)
Over the years…
Over the years??!!? Man, now that’s a scary thought.
Over the years I’ve dragged this poor blog of mine through bogs of themes, swamps of plugins and the muck of occasionally plugged up databases. Past God knows how many version updates, database back ups and restorations, complete reinstalls and bouts of complete and utter apathy.
I’ve pushed it in front of me with the joy of finding out what lay around the next corner and dragged it behind me like some boat anchor chained around my neck secured with a padlock I didn’t have a key for.
I’ve swung from not being able to write fast enough to complete lack of interest and back again so many times I’ve lost count.
But I also made some very good friends along the way, most of which are still hanging around despite my lack of content over the past year. Okay, so it was a bugger of a year what with surgery and all that led up to it. And it’s taken a hell of a lot longer to recover from it than I first thought but people lose interest fast in these days of Carnation Instant Facebook and Folgers Freeze Dried Twitter. So I’m very thankful that those who I hold closest still have me plugged into their feed reader of choice.
I’ve been Stumbled a few times, Dugg once or twice and,at one time or another, earned all those badges of merit near the bottom of the sidebar. I even had the pleasure of helping a few folks in their own blogging endeavors while I was at it so all in all it’s been a pretty good run so far.
Looks like it’s too late to stop now what with 5 years waggling it’s ears and staring at me from around the next corner. Now that dealing with the back end of the blog is akin to climbing into my old Jeep Cherokee and going for a drive in the country, I can handle all the mechanics easier than I can write posts most times So it seems the only logical thing to do is continue on continuing on.
Even though I’m a rather illogical person at heart.
So here’s to blogging for fifth year. Hopefully these next twelve months won’t pass me by like the last twelve did. Too much going on and I really hate missing out on things.
So it’s not a great ending but it’s getting late and I need my cup of tea before I hit the sack.
