2000 Posts!!

Well, today is officially my 2000th post - not sure if that’s astounding to anyone else but me, but astounding nonetheless.

And, as it happens, I am actually posting this courtesy of my own Personal Hotspot - essentially sharing the internet from my i-Phone. It is a milestone achieved by Apple - it is just sooo fitting!!

So, reflections. Or self-indulgence, you can be the judge...

I started doing this blog back in 2006 to replace something called “Morning Papers”, a daily writer’s exercise involving writing out three long-hand pages, from the top of your head. I did that exercise faithfully for years, even while camping in the pouring rain, or away on holidays. Ironically, shortly after I started doing this blog, I was on a trip to Dayton for the bi-annual Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop - and posted of seeing not only the sites of that city, but column-writing icons like Dave Barry. If you scroll back through the archives, you can see me grinning like an idiot beside him.

That ended up becoming a regular part of the blog over the years. Travel writing, reviews of events I was attending - which has expanded my writing away from the regular humour column I had been writing at the time. Still do some of that, but thanks to this space in particular, I now do book and CD reviews, concert and other reviews - totally expanded my writing horizon, due to a silly bit of daily posted drivel.

And there has been drivel, let me tell you. Many days I sit here, and wonder just what the hell I’m supposed to be writing about. I’ve fractured many a popular fairy tale, or rambled on about absolutely nothing many, many times here.

I’ve also posted links to my other writing, and allowed a certain chain-smoking, hard-drinking delusional chicken to guest post on weekends, which inexplicably is my most viewed feature here - often by over double the next closest topic. Just goes to show you can’t pre-judge what attracts readers.

Anyhow, it’s been a wild ride, to say the least. Now you can view my audio interview series, catch up on my Tweets, and find valuable savings on penis enlargement products (or restaurant coupons, it varies...) - all from this convenient space.

Now, I just have to rebuild my main website!

Thanks, crazy readers - it’s your fault I do this every day. Here’s to the next 2000!

Chow for now!!