Blogging, Six Years On

True to form, I missed a rather interesting milestone by a couple days.  It's been six years {on 5 October} now since I started blogging, and to paraphrase that famous song, what a trip it has been.


The mundane stats are: six offshoots {including my small YouTube channel}; a few hundred-odd posts; perhaps 45,000 collective views or "hits."  Modest and humble figures, all - but only part of the story.  The last six years have also seen some pretty significant sea-changes, both for me personally, and for the wider world in general.  Not all for the better, true; but still pretty evenly balanced, good vs. bad.  Which is more or less par for the course, all things considered.

In the last half-decade-plus, I've travelled; moved; been published several times; notched another hundred-odd musical performances under my belt; been stalked by the Grim Reaper; Loved, and then lost Love.  I've been through one tornado, two severe ice-storms, half-a-dozen potent blizzards, and the remnants of one hurricane; plus heatwaves, lightning strikes, a 100-year flood, and three minor earthquakes.

My world around me has been violently battered by terrorism, political and economic strife unknown to this country until recently, countless other natural and unnatural disasters, and a general feeling of constant uneasiness we haven't had in close to 40 years.  MySpace, YouTube and Google were just becoming powerhouses {Facebook didn't exist yet} six years ago, and they all have done their share in shaping our environment since, for good and ill. 


Pretty much thanks to them in particular, and this Interwide Web-thingy in general,  I've been able to befriend my third and last Drum Mentor of my original 4, as well as befriending several other famously-accomplished people.  I value each of those friendships as much as my "regular" ones - famous people are still just  people after all, and most enjoy being simply treated as such.  All of this - and lots more - happening just within the last six years; and the bulk of it documented or at least mentioned on my various humble pages, including this one.

Of course, I'm also six years older, with corresponding experience and whatever wisdom goes along with it.  My youthful passions have become middle-age passions, for the most part.  Everything else has long since settled into the long distance-mode, as my journey continues.  Looking back, the last six years are a good chunk of time, and for the most part I've enjoyed sharing several of my thoughts about the ride on this and the other pages.  While some of my blogging-itch has been thoroughly scratched, I don't feel I'm done by a long shot.  There will be plenty more grist for this humble little mill, rest assured.


So that's it, in a nutshell.  Blogging is a small part of my life that has acquired true merit the good old-fashioned hard way; through the proverbial blood, sweat, and tears.  I'm proud of where I've been and what I've survived and written about; and I'm genuinely looking forward to the next six years' worth of blogs, God willing.  Y'all who've been with me as Regular Readers are more than welcome to keep doing the hang here.  I dig you lot to death, in case I haven't told anyone directly.  As for the rest of the audience, please stick around and get comfortable.  Sooner or later I'll do something amusing, and your patience will be rewarded.

No good deed goes unpunished, dig?

More shortly - pop that giggle-water now, if ya like............