History Is Made
Posted on | January 20, 2009 at 7:27 pm | 3 Comments
As most of you know, this is a very momentous day in the history of this great country of ours. A milestone has been reached. It’s a milestone that many could not have seen coming this quickly.
Yes, this blog is five years old!
Hard to believe I’ve been doing this blog thing for five whole years now. I had no idea when I started it on January 20th 2004, that I’d still be going strong half a decade later. A lot has happened in that time, but I covered most of it in last year’s anniversary entry, so I won’t repeat it, dwell on it, or re-bore you with the history of this humble little weblog. Although it is time to reexamine the statistics. Last year at this time, I had written 600 posts, for an average of a post every 2.5 days. Now I am up to post 918, which ups my average to a post every other day. Of course, that’s mainly due to the fact that I had a year-long string of daily posts from 10/30/07 through 10/29/08. So, again, hooray for me! I’m the best.
And to have this happen on the same day as another American milestone is just icing on the anniversary cake. While drinking my celebratory champagne, I will also be toasting our new President, as well as the new spirit of hope/change/whatever in America. This is a turning point in many different ways, and I think I’m finally beginning to feel better about the future. Don’t let me down, Obama Administration! Fix everything! Hey, if a guy can land a plane in the Hudson River with no causalities, anything is possible.
(Note: I originally designed the graphic above with an American flag in the background to celebrate the day, but decided against that version when I noticed it looked like the flag was being burned. Something tells me that’s not in very good taste.)
Thanks for reading! Stay tuned! The best is… somewhere.
And let me leave you with this little conundrum:
Are we human? Or are we… dancer?
Latre.
Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Exercising Since The Last Entry:
- “Synthesize” (Shalini)
- “Falling Flame” (Echobelly)
- “To Wild Homes” (The New Pornographers)
- “Slipping My Mind” (Michael Penn)
- “MTV Song” (Anton Barbeau)
- “Dancing Shoes” (Arctic Monkeys)
- “Tad Song” (Anton Barbeau)
- “Wondering” (Dirty Pretty Things)
- “Untouchable” (Paul Kelly)
- “Crypto-Sicko” (Loud Family)
- “Everything Must Go” (Manic Street Preachers)
- “Love Reality” (Reggie and the Full Effect)
- “Windmills in a world without wind” (Bill Nelson)
- “This Time” (Icehouse)
- “Where and Why” (Chris Mars)
- “First-Time Mother’s Joy (Flying)” (Mercury Rev)
- “Garden of Delight (Hereafter)” (Mission UK)
- “Supergirls” (The Capes)
- “Strawberryfire” (The Apples In Stereo)
- “Days Run Away” (House Of Love)
- “Chemicals” (Poster Children)
- “Wonder Guy” (Girls Say Yes)
- “Seattle” (Fastball)
- “Stupid Dream” (Porcupine Tree)
- “Carry My Picture” (The Connells)
I actually did 4 miles on the treadmill at the gym yesterday, which took me 45 minutes. And then I spent another 45 minutes or so doing weight training. Yeah, I’m buff. (Actually, I’m as squishy as always, but at least I’m sweating more.)
Pet Peeve of the Day: Why do nursing homes never have adequate visitor parking?
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “can’t sleep alarm clock too bright”.
Videogame(s) Played Since Last Blog Update: Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS)
Comments
3 Responses to “History Is Made”
January 20th, 2009 @ 10:06 pm
I dunno about anybody else, but I’m not dancer.
Congrats, RW!
January 21st, 2009 @ 6:23 pm
Re: your pet peeve, if you were a glass-half-full kind of guy you would say that it is fortunate that there are plenty of visitors!
January 22nd, 2009 @ 5:18 am
Congrats! Five years is like 120 in blogger time.