Annus Unus
Tomorrow marks a year here.
My first post was at 2:39 p.m.:
“Should anyone happen upon this blog, you may safely move on. I created it about five minutes ago and I am playing with it to learn how to do this. Come back in a month or so. It will either be gone due to lack of interest or ability on my part; or, there might be something here to interest you.”
I got no comments. I went through the first month of posts. Nine comments, mostly people, family and friends that I’d told about the blog. Interestingly, one of my most “popular” posts ever, in terms of Google searches was my fourth:
The Federal Judge Song
The link below is a must listen for those of you in the law biz. Just plain funny for everyone else.
fairjudiciary.com/cfj_contents/multimedia/Judge_Song.mp3
Last time I checked, I was still the number one Google result for the song. I still get hits for it.
I’m up to a bit over 9,000 visitors. Granted, there are days that I play at this rather than working; but, some of you are slacking off too, a lot of you.
The best thing about writing this is that it has introduced me to you. Over the past year, I’ve read your comments about what I’ve written, I’ve read what you’ve posted. You’ve made me happy, mad, laugh, tear-up (grown men don’t cry). Most importantly, you’ve made me think and feel what you feel. I’ve become a part of a community. Almost all of the members of the community aren’t neighbors in a temporal sense; but, we are neighbors none-the-less.
I’m looking forward to another year in the neighborhood.
13 comments:
Congratulations on your anniversary. I have really enjoyed these few months I have been reading and am happy to have you as one of the few commenters I have on my site.
Here's to another great year!
Thanks Sonja. Write more and they will come. Even if you don't, I'll wander past anyway.
I'm a late comer here - found you via Debo Blue and at the same time then, through you, I found Bruce (can't spell his blog name) and Dr. Sardonicus, then Magnetbabe - added them all to my faves list. I'd add more but gee, I'm beginning to feel like a thief in the night so I decided to let the rest on your sight and I just click in from there!
I really enjoy reading your blog and the others mentioned too because though sometimes things get funny and light-hearted and all that, usually I can find good, substantial discussions that help to keep my mind functioning in a more, dare I say, "intellectual" fashion. Keep it up and hope we're both still around, reading, blogging some more next year at this time. (I just had my first blogoversary too but didn't call attention to it at the time. Save it for bigger and better anniversary celebrations maybe, huh?
Happy anniversary neighbour.
Wow. I feel like a bit of an old timer compared with you whipper-snappers. My first blog post was 3/3/2005. So I have been at this for 2.5 years, and yet, I am sure, my total output is dwarfed dy yours.
Congrats on the milestone. And may there be many more.
By the way, what got you started on this anyway?
For me, I had always written little emails and letters of my internal thoughts and observations, but only sent them to my wife. Then, in spring 2005, a client of mine asked me to look into using Blogger for a publishing tool on his website. So I set up an account and started playing around with it.
And I was thrilled that I now had an outlet for my bloviations.
Thanks guy and girls. In the event you haven't stopped at Pole Hill Sanitarium since midweek, Doc is celebrating the same milestone.
What started me doing this is something I'm not sure of. I've made a living writing, and less well talking.
I got my first computer in the early Eighties, an Osborne, before the Internet. Then I got a secretary that typed about 120 wpm. That ended the typing thing except in an emergency.
I got a laptop in about the mid-nineties and an internet account, driven by clients. Interestingly, it was just before or after I got my first cell phone, for the same reason.
Back then, I travelled a lot. I'd surf in the hotel room. This blog had its genesis in those hotel rooms in the form of Emails to friends and family when I was bored.
What started me last year? I don't know. I was getting a lot of forwards, and sent the ones I liked on to friends. I'd heard of blogs and one day, rather than working, I checked it out. My joke and site forwarding has slowed down a lot. The recpients, are now occassional readers of the blog.
A thought, I used to impose on them without asking and send them the forwards or the quick pithy Emails on a regular basis. I almost never send a post to anyone. What's the difference in my thinking?
Happy anniversary, Dave. It's quite a coincidence that our blogs literally started within hours of each other, especially considering that I'd been toying with the idea of blogging for months, but got started only because the demands of the people I knew online were too hard to resist any longer.
One of the best things about blogging is that not only are you part of a larger community, but communities form around each individual blog as well. Here's to the continued growth of the Rather Than Working community.
Awww Dave...you're one of my favorite neighbors.
I'm sorry I've been absent as of late. Lack of time, or rather, lack of having anything interesting to say kept me away. My internet connection has also been lacking, and as such, I've been trying to send this comment through for about 10 minutes.
I'll post in the next few days.
Congratulations on your first anniversary. Mine's coming up next month... funny how it turned into something important and familiar now, rather than just 'a blog'?
I love your posts...I'll be hanging around for year 2.
Happy Blog-o-versary, Dave. Belated, of course.
I am just now getting caught up on last week. Slowly getting back to normal, but still worried and feeling unsettled and uneasy.
Happy anniversary! I just found you today. I think.
Congratulations on your first anniversary! (So, we're like doting mothers who meet in the playground, each with a small one-year old blog that's still not quite safe to leave wandering around on its own.) Keep writing. I enjoy it.
Congratulations on your blogiversary. Listening to the song now....
Wickedly funny.
And, oddly enough, I just got back from the District Court a little while ago. *shudder*
But -- and this is weird -- the newer judges and magistrates don't seem as arrogant as the ones I remember from my infrequent visits years ago. And then it occurs to me... maybe they're giving me some slack due to my gray hair... maybe they haven't changed... I have.
But I still prefer State court.
And I wouldn't want to be a Federal judge, lifetime appointment or no. They do too many things -- too varied a caseload -- you can never be truly competent in all of these areas.
Besides, awful as State statutes are, Federal statutes are written and organized in an even more obscure and impenetrable manner.
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