Today marks twenty years I have been doing this stupid hobby. I thought I’d be at it a few months and be done. Instead I have formed many friends and had a lot of great conversations. Some of you have been here since almost the beginning: Jean, Freddie. Cappy, Ed, Fuzzy, Ralph, B. I’m sure I forgot many of you and I apologize. I bet there are even more that read and don’t comment. I read a lot of blogs who never know I lurk. Even those of you who might not agree with me brought me a great joy. I love a good argument. In recent years some of you have been great readers and friends too — Sluggy, Glasslass, MC, Linda -far too many to mention and I am very sorry.
I have been here for 8,387 posts. More than 20,000 comments and over three million visitors. I remember when I had six hits in a day and three were me checking to see if anyone read my garbage. And yes, a lot of my commentary here has been garbage. Occasionally I have put up something worth reading — the herd of monkeys in a room of typewriters theory.
You see kids, a typewriter is this old mechanical device…
Twenty years is a long time.
Thank you all for great fun and great memories.
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And thank you for the reads, great or mediocre and the laughs too.
Congrats, my fellow Hoosier!
20 years. Man, we're gettin' old.
I admire your dedication, and I thank you for the reliable diversion in an increasingly insane world.
Freddie
Congrats !!!!!!!!!!!
Here's 10 bucks. Keep posting.
What a great pleasure to have shared this ride with you, my friend.
Onward!
This is just a joke: "I didn't know they had computer twenty years ago". OK. Joke over. I'm at 31 years and YES! They had computers back then. And AOL. How's that for memory lane?
31! I bow before you
I did not find you for years after I started blogging. The book was the best part. Thanks!
We are a community, a Tribe.
Happy 20th anniversary.
I read this yesterday and hoped against hope. Thanks for all my years. You were my first read of the day after Fox and by then I need this. I hope you'll have an urge to write again. I'm gonna miss you my friend.
Thanks everybody
Joe
You are not going away, buster!
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