#2000 – What’s it all about, blogger?

In February 2001, I set up a blog on Blogger (the revolution will be bloggerized). Eventually that blog got moved to WordPress but the plan was still the same:

I thought it would be interesting to keep a more diary-like journal during the coming year, perhaps not just focused on taking photos and sewing but a little about what I’m thinking about and doing.

Like the progress of the web in general (what’s a web page? do I have an e-mail-whatzthat?) it took awhile for the idea of blogging to get out there. There have been times that I’ve paid more attention to page views and traffic but in general I don’t. This is the closest thing to keeping a diary I’ve ever had but with some basic “rules” that I decided from the beginning – no deeply personal/personal life stuff, no bad-mouthing people except in a general world-view kind of way, no detailed work stuff. That’s just common sense. But it means that you didn’t read about my marriage or bad job moments or my divorce here, and that’s good. Those things weren’t my purpose for writing a blog.

If you look over in the sidebar you’ll see that this is post number 366 for 2011, and my records show it’s number 2000 since that first post in 2001. I think I’ve stayed the course of showing what I’m working on, what has my interest, what I saw, and what I’m thinking. You’ll also see that I hit a snag a couple years ago both in blogging and quilting. It’s nice to see the return of numbers over there.

Thank you faithful readers for your visits here – they mean a lot to me.

So happy milestone #2000 blog! And since this is October 1st, there’s time to add onto that by year’s end and by your next anniversary in February. Having passed this somewhat arbitrary deadline, let’s plow on and see what the road ahead holds for us.

Let’s close with a nice Coolidge quote about persistence, eh? (Because it’s all about the quotes and the persistence and Coolidge.)

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
— Calvin Coolidge