Second Blogaversary

Two years!

It’s been two years. On May 1, 2014, I wrote my first post on this blog and on May 1, 2015 wrote a followup. If the first year of the blog was filled with great hopes, the second year, reality set in. In the first year of the blog, I turned out 528 posts (more than one a day), but in the second year, I turned to other things, and only wrote a further 103 posts (call it one every three and a half days). Ouch. What happened?

Mostly I was busy. I started the blog with a few things in mind, although there was the hope that somehow the blog would bring me an ever-increasing readership. This is not the case. If you’re reading this post, you’re one of the few. Be proud of it. After a few months, in anticipation of the coming readership, I started serving ads on the page, but at my current readership, that should pay off sometime in 2034 (and then again in 2054).

One of my goals was to recapture my own voice, to make this blog sound like me. In my prior life, I did a lot of corporate writing, and I found that when I got home I would be writing in that same corporate speak. Who wants to read that? Not even the recipients of those corporate screeds really wanted to be reading it, but that’s what I had to write. I am happy to say, in that respect, the blog has done its job and I am writing something that is my own voice, for better or worse.

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First Blogaversary

He does graphics too!

I started this blog one year ago today with a short post about blogging (I’ve tracked a few blogs back to find their writers started with the same thing). From there, I went to cooking, but it wasn’t until the blog was three weeks old that I started looking at old articles about Esperanto and other constructed languages (something that now dominates my blog). Yet, when I did that first post on Esperanto, it wasn’t my intent. I figured I’d fill in with posting on something on Esperanto from time to time.

There are, ironically, some things I wanted to do with this blog (including reading through The Faerie Queene) that I haven’t done. Nor have I done as many cooking posts as I’d like to, which is a little surprising to me. Ironically, I keep thinking of cooking posts I should write, but then they don’t get written.

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