Yet another anniversary of my time on the internet has passed. And by quite a bit.
Turns out, I have now, officially, been putting words to screen (and it’s verifiable) for just a bit over 7 years! If you were to go back through the archives here, you will find my first post, at what was windthefrog.net, happened on November 5th, 2003. Of course, I’ve been doing for a bit longer, but those were posts that were eaten by Blogger or vaporized by Greymatter when I switched over.
7 years and change. Anyone curious what that means? According to the handy dandy Wordpress Dashboard it means
- 1,428 posts contained within 41 categories
- There have been 1,927 comments made, 1,911 approved
- I’ve used 642 tags
I’m not really sure what the word count is, but figure that each of the posts that I make here is usually around 300, than means that I’ve typed out over 400,000 words. Staggering. And that’s just here.
To get the full look back, I need to include the posts from dbmini.us, which started September, 2002, those stats would look something like this.
- 2,491 posts contained within 68 categories
- There have been 3,760 comments made
- I’ve used 721 tags
Using the same math as above, but assuming an average word count of 200 per post, that gives me a grand total over the past 7 years of almost 500,000 words that I have put to screen.
And that doesn’t even count the 6,657 posts on Twitter or the 2,591 posts on Tumblr. It also doesn’t count the hundreds of posts at Motoringfile that I have my name of them, or the 658 posts at White Roof Radio. If I had to guess, that’s got to be close to 750,000 words that I have put to screen in the last 7 years (and change).
Amazing.
What a very interesting year 2009 was, at least for me. Amazingly I survived, but just barely.
Two Zero One Zero
Starting the new year with a brand new website gone live. Check it out at IntrepidCycles.com. Full Wordpress site, as you would expect, but will also include a shopping cart by the end of the week and a members-only section. Still all contained within Wordpress. Watch the Twitter for updates as they happen.
Besides that, I’m also starting 2010 the same way I started 2009. Unemployed. You might have seen it on Facebook already. It’s not that big of a deal really. They are a great company and I just wasn’t the right ‘fit’ for what they were looking for. At least I was able to get a few balls rolling for them to get them on their way. Still, highly recommend them for any of yourproperty management needs, especially if you are in Southern California.
That makes twice I had a job in 2009 and twice I lost the job. Time to knuckle down, revamp the resume and keep at it until something sticks. Oh yea, and get the MINI fixed.
Most of you have already been keeping up with the goings on from A MINI Vacation in Vegas via Facebook and Twitter. But for those of you that haven’t, here is the skinny.
All of the video (so far) is up at WhiteRoof.tv. Here is a sample.
You can check out the photos here. Be sure to do a search at Flickr for AMVIV as there are a TON of great photos from some of the best MINI photographers in the country!
Still more audio, a W(t)F video hour and a post or two to follow.
This is a repost for those that don’t follow along at the other sites but might be interested in following along as we cover a National Automotive Event.
If you’ve already seen this at dbmini, WRR or MF, no need to click through because it is exactly the same. I will say that I will be fairly sparse around here for the next week and change starting Thursday.
