Every great once-in-a-while, I'll look back at some of my blogs. It's fun. It's like a trip down memory lane. I get a little upset because I must have lost some pictures when I moved things around way-back-when. Also, I get saddened because I used a commenting system that erased comments older than a year (I learned later that I needed to pay to keep them longer). I think I'll eventually re-haul my website into something nicer and longer lasting (but that probably won't be for a while - since the tax season has started and I'll be pretty busy).
Here are a few of the things I noted as I looked back over the year and a half of blogs.
First blog: Friday, May 14, 2004. This was mostly a test, since it was my first blog. I used one of my more favorite pictures from my brother's wedding. It's good to have Marla as part of the family.
First (and only) audio blog: Saturday, November 06, 2004. I recorded a phone message between myself and my buddy Steve. Steve's been a good and enjoyable friend for about 5+ years. I'm glad he moved to Minnesota and that we got to be roommates. Steve's a good example of a friend that is just plan old fun to hang with and a great example of a positive thinker. Click Here to jump right into the audio.
First good reason to use a blog: Wednesday, August 17, 2005. This blog marked the first of almost 150 blogs dedicated to Rob's heart surgery. Probably over 1,000 comments from friends and family. And a jump in blog visits by about 8,000. I kinda' don't want to think about those 2-3 months cause they make me wanna' cry, a little. I'm glad that my brother cowboy’ed his way through the wild ride. I thank Heavenly Father for family (and mechanical valves)!
I could go on with cool links to other important posts, like dad having his heart surgery (though, I think I just have pictures of the waiting room - under "pictures"). Marin being born (to Bob & Melissa). Fun times with Natalie & Bito. And, a link to a heated discussion with an anonymous lady that thought I was sexist (in the end I won her over - but I still don't know who she was). Unfortunately, all these things would take up too much space on this post (and it's already bigger than I thought it'd be). You can always search for things using the search box (top right).
As of now, this website has received 12,602 visits. 83% of those visits are from visitors from the US. 2% from Sweden, 2% from the Netherlands, 2% from Mexico, 2% from the UK, 1% from Japan, 1% from Jordan, 1% from Italy, 1% from Ireland, 1% from France, 1% from Algeria, 1% from Canada, and 1% from Austria.
23% of the visits were by users of Mac machines. 76% from Windows. Stay strong 23% (not like I need to tell you that, since you already know how much more enjoyable your lives are because you don't have to deal with Windows).
And finally, I've had 238 posts on this site, and 9 posts in the Media side of this website. 247 posts combined. I wish I knew how many comments this website has received, but like I said, I lost a whole bunch. If I were to guess I'd say probably a little over 2,000.
As for the future. My biggest desire (website related) is to re-haul this site into something more powerful. Next dream would be for more family members to make posts of their own (hello Jen???). Thirdly, I hope to buy some kind of portable camera this Summer - I think the pictures are my favorite part about this website. Lastly, I wonder if I might play around with podcasting sometime (if you’re not familiar with the term, it basically means “on-demand radio shows” - of course, for me it would just be a fun thing.) If not podcasting, I would like to do more voice type stuff (like the Steve blog mentioned above), because it’s really very fun to listen to audio clips. Along the same lines, I'd like to post more video clips.
My very last big goal would be to get those crazy 1% Algerian's to something more respectable like 2%. Come on Algeria with your population of 32,531,853 I think you can do a little better than 1%. Seriously.
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