1/20th of a Century of Unrelenting Trivialities
Category: Navel Gazing...
Posted Thursday, November 08, 2007 at 06:22 AM [GMT-6]

I don't normally observe a so-called "blogversary," primarily because it's an unattractive word (as is almost every made-up work prefaced with "blog-"), but today marks five years for the Gazette and symbolizes the fact that even the striving to attain mediocrity can be celebrated if it goes on long enough.

According to the stats, the Gazette's archives now consists of 3,348 posts (plus this one), complemented by 15,968 comments. That works out to about 1.8 posts per day, and I'm sure you'll agree that things were only improved by my inability to achieve that last two-tenths of a post.

While I've quit blogging at least a hundred times over the years (even though I succeeded only once, and even that success was short-lived), and even though I tell myself I'd keep doing this if no one but me was paying attention, the truth of the matter is that it's your comments and emails and conversations during chance encounters in the grocery store aisles and church pews and buffet lines that keep me doing it. So, you're either to blame or to thank, depending on your outlook.

As for me, I thank you. As do the baby squirrels.