Posting for 500 Days

Regardless of what the SquareSpace timestamp on this posting says—it is based on USA time zone somewhere in the US and not an Australian time zone—it is now 00:12 (12:12 a.m.) on the 31st December 2010. This means I have been blogging for 500 days. Yep! One day before New Year’s day 2011 I have been posting for 500 days. Not that this is really any major event. Five years; now that would be an ‘event’. Or even better, ten years. But 500 days is no bona-fide celebratory landmark really.

Five hundred days breaks down to one year and 135 days, or about one year four months and two weeks (based on the statistical 4.3 week month—I used to work as a “Timekeeper” so I know stuff like that).

It even sounds like less of a landmark when you point out that 500 days is 1.3699 years. And then you ask, “Who celebrates anything after 1.3699 years?” Ehhh! What?

But for me it sort of is a big deal. There are three or four or more times in those 500 days when I thought I might give it away. Each post is hand-crafted and not simply a link to some other post on the Web. It takes time and thought. Also I try to mix it up and cover many and varied topics, although I know that computer and photography topics tend to occur more often than other topics.

Right at this time it would be fair to say that I am a little pessimistic about clocking up another 500 days. Part of me hopes that I can. There are days when I get excellent therapeutical feedback from researching and wording up a post, but there are also times that it does leave me a bit flat when I think that maybe, if I am really lucky 10, possibly 15, people might come across it and read it.

Well—like everything else in life—I guess I will just keep going until I stop . . . and maybe in 500 days I will be putting some words together for my 1,000th day of posting.

P.S. I just noticed that this post was my 250th post. How about that? My post about posting for 500 days was my 250th post. I swear it was totally unplanned. That also means that, on average, I have posted something every second day.