Happy 20th Anniversary to a Forgotten Blog

Remember how, in my last post, I said I was trying to think of things to post about? That was seven and a half years ago. Time flies, doesn't it?

First things first, I don't want people to see this post and think that I'll be posting here on a regular basis again. I don't see that happening, so please don't get your hopes up if you're one of the three people that knows this blog exists. I'm mainly posting this for one reason: to mark the twentieth anniversary of this very blog.

Twenty years. Wow. When I started scribbling down some goofy notes on what started out as a crappy page on Tripod.com back in 2001, I didn't expect it to last one year, let alone many. And while I haven't posted anything since 2014, and I haven't even visited here in quite a long while, I still have kind of a soft spot in my heart for this place. It was somewhere for me to go and put my thoughts together in a place that felt comfortable. It was somewhere for me to try being creative, to experiment with writing at a time when the friends I had online were doing something similar.

But after a while, I felt like I'd run out of things to say. It's not like nothing was happening in my life, but I didn't really have the enthusiasm for blogging that I had forever ago. It stopped being something I enjoyed doing, and became something to do because I'd always done it. That's the same reason why my output over at my movie review blog kinda tapered off after a while. After so long, I was simply burned out. Throw in life getting in the way, and the whole thing just wasn't as fun as it used to be anymore.

I do look back on this blog with fondness, though. And that's why I had to be here to mark its twentieth birthday. It's been a long, long road between where I was then as a dorky teenager on a beaten-up Gateway PC in a college dorm room in Campbellsville, Kentucky, to where I am now, as a dorky adult on a beaten up HP laptop. But it's been a fun ride, and I'll never say no to a little fun.