Anniversaries

Do you know what completely passed me by? The 20th anniversary of this blog. It was at the start of last month: April 7th. At the time, I genuinely didn't think it would last the year. I really didn't have the attention span for it, nor did I think I would get any value out of it. I'd tried keeping a diary before with no success.

But I did. It enabled me to order my thoughts, it was my own sounding board the very act of typing something out helped figure out what I needed to do, and as a side benefit, it allowed USHW to keep abreast of what I was thinking or feeling without actively engaging her in a conversation about it.

I have been fairly open on the blog, but there have been some things that I've just not mentioned, or have been touched upon but never in details: some family stuff that's ongoing, some work stuff from about four years ago and some other personal stuff. But in general, I think I've been somewhat of an open book compared to me IRL.

And a lot of times, something that was posted on the blog did end up being covered in a lot more detail with USHW in a separate email conversation which often helped. Unless we were talking about Sports Girl or CH, because we could never figure out what they were thinking.

But 3825 posts later, here we are. It'll likely be 4000 posts by the end if the year if I keep up this posting rate, not that the numbers mean anything.

What does the future hold?