Slap on the party hats and pull out the kazoos! Today marks the eighth year since I suddenly found myself the proud papa of a shiny new blog. In my ignorance at the time I was under the mistaken impression that I had to have a blog in order to comment on my friend Nick’s blog and after a quick and painless labor I brought forth Stainless Steel Droppings, the name a combination of the quality of programming I assumed I would be creating and a popular science fiction character written by author Harry Harrison.
If you go back to the beginning you’ll see a post on January 1st of 2005 but that is a post I moved to that location for a specific reason (which escapes me all these years later). No, my inaugural post was my January 18th, 2005 lamentation of the beginning of the end for my favorite television show at the time, NYPD Blue. Dang, I still miss Sipowicz. Eight years ago I wrote a brief post about a television show that made me cry. Yesterday I posted a book review about a book that, you guessed it, made me cry. So what have I learned after eight years of blogging? That I am still every bit the sap that I always have been, if not more so.
These past eight years have been a gift to me in the friends I have made and the opportunities I have had to discuss a wide variety of topics with a bunch of interesting people. I miss some who have gone their own way, have had the unpleasant experience of seeing a dear friend pass away before her life had really begun, and have made some lasting relationships that enrich my life in ways I cannot quantify or explain. And every year I meet new, awesome people.
Since the internet has brought so many gifts to me over the years, I’m giving eight gifts to you! Before you go getting all excited let me tell you that these gifts are, on the surface, quite shallow and perhaps silly but they are a current indication of how much fun the internet can be. Their creativity makes me smile as does yours. And if your opinion of these gifts is that they truly are poo, well the word “droppings” remains a part of my blog title after all these years. 🙂
