1st Aniversary

Well this week marks the one-year anniversary of my web site. I’ve written 31 forums in 365 days. I’ve re-done the site two or three times, writing close to 13,000 words and unknown amounts of html code to get to where I am today. I’m averaging around 300 hits per month which considering I have neither naked pictures, nor a particularly funny writing style, seems pretty good to me. This week the site reached the 3000 hit mark.

I’m trying to remember what caused me to start this web page in the first place. I think I was reading a story about blogging and I thought I would look into it. At any rate, I’ve longs since dropped the blog part of my web page as I found it too lightweight and fleeting than the style I was interested in creating.

Besides I need spell check otherwise I get cranky and use small words.

I can honestly say that I haven’t written this much since high school, being that I chose a fine liberal arts education where large amounts of writing weren’t a prerequisite to graduation. Not that I graduated or anything. For a reason that seems far away and distant, I left school three credits short of a diploma and never went back.

Today just seemed like a nice time to stop and thank everybody for coming by and hanging out for a bit. It does make a difference to know that friends come by and actually read this stuff. It’s worked to help my songwriting as well I think as this last year was one of the most proficient I’ve ever had in both output and quality.

I’m hoping that one year from now I will still be writing at my post Christmas pace of one forum a week. I know that it’s made me a better writer and I’m sure it will continue to improve if I keep at it.

This week I’ve added a comments area at the bottom of the page where you can leave me a message if you’d like. I’d had one on this page a long time ago but I discontinued it due to lack of posts. I’ll give this one a couple months and see what happens.

See you next week

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