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February 05, 2004

Happy Anniversary To Me -

It took me a couple of glances at the calendar, but today, February 5, is this blog's second birthday.

Reading Michelle at A Small Victory and her essay about her blog's third anniversary prompted me to remember the date.

As fast as time seems to fly these days, this past two years has been enough of a whirlwind to actually feel like...well, two years. It's seen three girlfriends come and go, three jobs (one of them's stayed so far), innumerable crises with the kids, four months of unemployment, five more of drastic underemployment...

...ugh. I'm tired thinking about it.

But I get exhilarated again thinking about what this blog has meant for me. During the most miserable days at my most miserable dotcom, it was an outlet to feel like I wasn't completely irrelevant - back when I was getting eight hits a day, it meant the world to me. During the '02 elections, when my hit counts jumped from 20 a day into the hundreds courtesy of a couple of fortuitous Instalanches and a really fun Fraterlanche, , it was as big an adrenaline rush as I'd had since my talk radio days. And during the endless, arid, throat in mouth months of unemployment, it was a reason to keep my mind together after the kids left the house in the morning.

Anyway - today, we're averaging around 500 hits a day, and the oocasional Instalance and Hughricane will push it into the thousands, and while that makes me still pretty minor-league, it's still fun.

So thanks. And I'll hope to see you here next year.

Bring some friends!

Posted by Mitch at February 5, 2004 05:02 AM
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