character saturday: 18th blogiversary realness

Happy Blogiversary to me! Tuesday was my 18th Blogiversary to be exact. So, yes, my blog is now 18 years old and can buy alcohol, gamble, vote and get an intimate piercing... then take a picture of it and send it to someone.

Yeah, that slightly got away from me.

But still, I've been banging away at this thing for the same length of time as an actual adult person. Scary that. Even if it is mostly just a once a week update and random DnD characters these days.

Speaking of same.

After last week I realised that other than my couple of wizard characters, I don't tend to fuck around with potential wizard designs, because it's not really my preferred arcane class, sorcerer all the way baby. So I started considering potential wizards for this week's DnD Character Colouring Book.

And although they lean into it less in 5e, a Gnomish Illusionist was a staple of previous editions. Also, I do love me a bitch who is extra. So that's how we ended up with Glim Glittergem (because nothing says extra like alliterative names) and his blue furred rabbit familiar, Horcusporcus, or Horcy for short. In a perfect world he might be wearing a top hat, but all the Hero Forge top hats are a little too goofy looking.

Anyway.

For some reason I've had a brain fart the last two weeks and ended up making soup that was a little too thin. But then it was pea and ham, so it was generally okay anyway.

Thursday Night DnD was... weird but good. Mostly weird because everyone was really timid about going into Obvious Bad Place... and I have the traits "I must know the answer to every secret, no door remains unopened in my presence" and "I care about the truth above all else, even if it doesn’t benefit anyone"... so, good times.

Also when you basically invent perfectly reasonable backstory in the moment based on things that happen. Although we also had to fight a fight we basically could have avoided because everyone else wanted to go right and I wanted to keep going left. Granted one of the players also got a cool magic item out of it, so not terrible.

I also just realised that given the magic item we found at the end of the last game which my character kept, he's now a big old nerd in glasses. Which I kind of dig.

Friday was also Chiro Day, which was good, because I was sorely in need of an adjustment, no pun intended.

Friday Night DnD definitely didn't go according to how I thought it would. But it was still good. It was a late night though, we left at 1am, and I didn't probably get to sleep until around 2am. And then woke up at 6. So, I'm gunna crash out super early tonight I think.

Anyway.

For the aforementioned reason, we didn't do anything beyond shopping today.

character saturday: faces faces faces

I will freely admit, that I'm going the low effort approach today as a) I'm exhausted and b) everything else wasn't low effort.

So instead, in the general theme of "not really a Hero Forge advert, but feels like one"... my favourite character making website just added the ability to put makeup and non-3d beards on characters. And I may have gone a little nuts yesterday.

We have played characters, unplayed characters, other people's characters, NPCs and other background characters and just for fun characters. In no specific order. And some of whom have shown up in different variations previously.

I will say that now that I have the option to put some black eyeliner on a character, I will need to come up with reasons NOT to, rather than reasons to add it. Plus a nice smoky eye.

Moving along...

This week has been... Second Hand Stressful.

So, after all the Get Ma on the Internet palaver of last Saturday, it turns out that the modem she has is... for no well explained reason that I can understand, but I'm dealing with second hand information and basically have to go off what she tells me... a "Telstra only" modem. I mean, fuck that noise both specifically and in general. Which means when the ISP tried to complete the transfer to them, they couldn't go the last step.

Which, in turn, stressed her out because they've already fucked her around extensively after she moved (Telstra that is), and she's done with their shit. But basically she contacted the ISP, explained things, and ordered a modem from them. It then took the rest of the week to get to her (she says that they suggested it would be there earlier... I think either the phone monkey was making wild assumptions or Ma misheard... both are eagerly likely).

And that meant that when it finally arrived at lunch time on Friday, everything I'd said to her last Saturday went completely out of her head which led to some slightly stressful phone conversations... and me thinking that perhaps I would need to head down to her place on Monday, which would have been fine, but then meant I had to do a lot of help desk sans full access to the internet.

Thankfully it mostly could all be rolled over to be "someone else's problem", in that it was more "call a people, make a people do a thing" for Ma.

So between that, keeping track of the package tracking for Ma just because it was one less thing to a) talk her through doing and b) something I could do and thinking that there was potential help desk on the horizon made the whole week a little stressy.

Add to that...

Water leaking from the cornice in the place it leaked not long after I moved in. And a forecast for rain all week, up to an including heavy showers, potential hail and strong winds on Friday.

That led to reporting it to the land agent, who then reported it to the Strata, who then contacted a plumber, who then called me on Friday when it was hammering with rain... and will come and investigate next Thursday. Because, of course.

It also meant that every night I unplugged my whole TV rig from that corner, because there's a powerpoint about a foot away from where the water was leaking.

On the up side... because there is one. The water dripped on Sunday, and again on Tuesday (I think, all the days this week have kind of blurred into one giant BLAH)... and then didn't leak again the rest of the week... even through the heavy rain last night.

Not that I'm telling the land agent or the strata that... I will tell the plumber (also, why a fucking plumber... I need a roofer or otherwise an expert in roof things... not a plumber... it's not plumbing, it's just water... whatever) that it may be partly due to the gutter being blocked, partly due to wind or rain coming from another direction... but all of that is supposition... basically I want someone to come sort the shit out and declare it appropriately fixed.

Suffice to say that I spent the whole week with my fingers crossed that I wasn't going to wake up or come home to discover an indoor vertical river between a powerpoint and a very large bookcase.

Hence, the general miasma of stress that permeated my whole week.

Soup this week was my version of the Dwarven Potato and Leek from a couple of weeks ago... maybe not the very, very best version of that soup I've ever made, but very good.

Thursday night's DnD was... a fitting finale to last week and my turn at DMing. And weirdly, I'd decided to build in a few story beats that ended up being very fitting for multiple characters without speaking to those players beforehand.

So, good job me I guess. It will be slightly weird to go back to playing next week, but also a lot less involved, so that's great.

Friday night's DnD was... unique. And I say that mostly because never before have I played DnD in the middle of a blackout by candlelight. Thankfully Mr and Mrs have ALL the candles, so when the power went out part way through the game, we took a time out, added a more than lots number of candles to the table and carried on with the game.

Yes, it was occasionally more difficult than necessary to read my dice, my character sheet and my spell descriptions. But it was also really cool. And appropriate since we're playing in a world that's always dark.

We met silly kobolds, I got a very pretty ring, we picked up a, frankly, stupid but still catchy party nickname and ended the adventure on the doorstep on my character's home and her seeing her "graph paper husband and son"... so that'll be an interesting session next week. Especially as DM Fluffy needs to play said husband and son. And I have very high expectations for this particular interaction, since said family has been living in my head for a while now.

I mean, it'll be fine either way... but... you know.

I will say that the drive to take Fluffy home has less fun than usual due to ALL THE RAIN, windy roads and car windows fogging up... blah. I mean, we survived, it was just, once again, stressful.

Sidebar... Tomorrow is my blog's 16th bloggiversary... Sweet Sixteen and all that. Wooo... I guess... even if it's mostly part diary, part me screaming into the void these days. Especially these days.

Moving on...

Today was... exhausting.

We did the supermarket thing... I'm going with the Halfling Tomato Soup again this week... because, honestly, I just need comfort soup... and tomato soup plus halfling soup equals comfort soup.

I also finally got the last of the ingredients for one of the other DnD recipes that I've been slowly collating for... about three weeks. Every time I think I've gotten everything I check the recipe again and realise I was mistaken. I mean, it would have helped if I'd written down the things I'd needed at any point. But no.

Then we came back here... and The Internet Simplified For Parent 2.0 class commenced. And it's not like we went through THAT many things... and she got most of it... and she'll be fine, but it'll just take a little while until she gets used to new systems and things.

My brain stopped working at a certain point though honestly... fortunately Ma's brain had stopped working several minutes beforehand, so we called it quits about there.

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character saturday: imaginary family

We're dipping into the NPC (non-player character) box for this week's DnD character art.

The trope I see most often about characters is that they have tragic backstories... everyone died in a fire, was killed by raiders, abandoned the character when they were a wee baby... some reason for them to head out on the road and become an adventurer.

The majority of the time I say "fuck that". A character who has a loving family and a secure home and still wants to go off and see the world is much more exciting to me. So, almost all of my characters have some sort of family somewhere. Some of them lost one parent or another, but that's never the reason they became an adventurer... I do have one went that route after he lost his wife, but that's it really.

Which is the long was of saying, these two halflings, Brandien Beestinger (baker and crossbow fighter) and Melody Longpond (sage and beast master ranger... and her peregrine falcon Essel), are the parents of Belben Beestinger (that's him, second from the left in the header image), my first ever DnD character.

Which is also super appropriate because tomorrow is the third anniversary of my first ever DnD game.

Given that he's an adventurer, descended from adventurers who are in turn descended from adventurers, at a certain point I did designs and characters for his Beestinger lineage.

Belben's direct family all have names inspired by Doctor Who companions (yes, I'm that kind of nerd)... Brandien translates to "Blue Hero" aka the TARDIS (hence his blue colour scheme), his mother Melody Longpond is a variation of River Song, his sisters are Rose, Marigold (standing in for Martha), Belladonna (Donna), Cara (Clara) and Pearl (the first name of the actress who played Bill Potts).

And part of the fun of designing his parents was figuring out how the genetics worked backwards. At least for me.

I will say that I've always been super happy with how Melody came out... both the white armour, which is mostly impractical but looks stylish as all fuck and the fact that I got a very peregrine falcon look for her bird companion thanks to cutting and layering actual photos. Less sure about the green trim on her bow to be honest... orange might have been more appropriate... but whadyagunnado?

Anyway...

Today is my 15th bloggiversary. Holy fuckballs. I mean we're definitely not in the heady days of 400-500 posts a year, I haven't broken 100 posts per annum since 2017, but we're still here.

It's also super weird to look back at some of that early stuff, where I didn't have a lot of routines and structures in place and I would just post about whatever whenever. Probably in the way I have used Twitter I guess. Random thought, tweet that shit.

However if I spend too much time looking at how many of the links in some of those old post are just broken or don't go anywhere sensible anymore, I will go insane.

In other news... which isn't really news, but still... I am not as scary as folks seem to believe I am. I mean, yes, but that's mostly for and about people I don't give two shits about. So, you know, other people. Yes, I have opinions... I have many, I hand them out on a regular basis, you only need to ask. Sometimes I give them away regardless. Do with them as you will. But if you think that means you can't bring your concerns to me or have a conversation about an issue, to that I say "look at your life, look at your choices" because you've made a wrong turn somewhere. But I love you anyway. And for the record, yes, you, you know who you are.

Now that we've got that out the way.

Chowder was more of a success this week... still a little too thin, but that was more about me putting more liquid in than it really needed... on the up side, it made 8 serves instead of the usual 7, which isn't a bad thing.

DnD was just Friday this week. I won't lie, one game a week isn't quite enough. Two games is better. Three is kind of my sweet spot I think. I know that four is too many. The Friday game was all roleplay once again. It kinda needed to be for logistical reasons, and some of it was just information transfer, but it had it's moments. And I did finally realise the root of the issues my character was having with the other character. The voice. Which sounds insane, I know this. But the character's voice was drilling straight into the part of my brain that instantly rebels against being condescended to or talked down to. And it also made perfect sense that my character would have the exact same response to that kind of voice.

Plus the two characters were just incapable of actually seeing each other and not the idea they had about who the other was. Sometimes it all gets real "persykological", to steal a word from Terry Pratchett.

We'll see what the next "chapter" holds.

In the Oven Repair Saga... the one thing I said to my land agent that was important in this whole rigmarole was that I wanted to be kept informed on where we were at. I mean, not that fucking hard, right. You find out a piece of news, you spend at most 90 seconds on an email, then you go on with your day. But I had to chase the job up again, only to find that yes, the repair has been approved and we're waiting on parts. When was it approved, fucked if I know. Sometime in the last two weeks, clearly. And I know it was probably going to take about two weeks for the parts to arrive during this time of strife. So how soon will it be fixed? Sometime in the next two weeks, possibly. Who can fucking say?

Again I say, in a much less forgiving tone of voice...  "look at your life, look at your choices".

I just wanna fucking bake bread again. Like seriously. Bread... and sausage rolls... and maybe a cake... and a tuna morney... and a whole fuckton of roast potatoes.

The plan for this week is a reasonable sized batch of chilli. With mushrooms. Plus other hidden vegetables. And my chilli game is pretty decent.

Otherwise, we did the supermarket thing, came back here, did the YubTubs, then went for a wander across at the Village. Picked up a copy of Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse for under $10, so hopefully it's as good as I've heard it is.

And that was it really. A wander and then we called it a day.

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thirteenth bloggiversary

This is a relatively quick post... It's also the first time I've done this semi-properly since about 2011.

Today is my blogiversary. My 13th blogiversary to be exact.

And tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the first time I went to play D&D, hence the dice photo and all the 13s.

So there's that.

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photo saturday: one and one make eleven

First things first... it was my eleventh bloggiversary this week. Yep... eleven years of the stream of consciousness from my fingers to your eyeballs. Scary, huh. And as anyone who's been paying attention will have noticed, the blog, she has pretty much dried up to about a once a week thing.

I'm not planning on shutting things down any time soon, but other than the explosion that is Fringe time when reviews are flying thick and fast across the blog, a once a week thing is about all I'm really up for any more. It's also not like my life is so terribly exciting that I can't sum the whole thing up in a once a week wrap-up.

And yes, the fact that it's my eleventh bloggiversary is the reason why all the image above contain a single item, person or creature... two one's side by side... eleven. Yeah, I got nothing really.

It feels like the overall theme of this week should be "things that should have happened but didn't". Like, me acknowledging that it was my bloggiversary on Monday... I knew it was coming, but somehow I thought it was Tuesday. Other things will become apparent as we go.

Sunday I made some version of potato, leek and bacon soup. Was it the best version I've ever made. No, not it was not. But it was edible, so that's the main thing.

Work was actually a little slow this week... things will return to the regularly scheduled insanity next week, but for now, I took the opportunity to just go a little slower on a lot of things.

Thursday was supposed to be a half day at work followed by my final tattoo session. However they called me first thing on Thursday morning to tell me that my artist had come down with "the lurgy" and had to cancel. Well shit... and after I drove into work and everything.

Friday the handyman was supposed to come and fix the toilet and the extractor fan in the kitchen. I got home Friday night and he'd definitely been here, but pretty sure he just poked around because he didn't actually fix anything. At least he showed up this time. And the fact that he was coming made me do all my necessary housework on Thursday night.

There really isn't anything else to report for the week portion of my week.

Today was fairly standard... got up, got ready, went shopping, came back unpacked.

I'm planning on making the pea soup again this week... which is fairly quick and simple if memory serves, and given that the main ingredient is frozen peas, I didn't end up buying all that much at the supermarket.

Once we were done with that portion of the morning we headed into the city to do some general wandering... I ended up spending a little money at Zing on Pop vinyl toys, then we headed down the other end of the Mall and I bought some new black jeans for work.

Not terribly exciting, but I did need the jeans, and hopefully they won't look quite so much like jeans.

We headed to Burger Theory for some lunch and had the fairly unusual burger of the month, the Meat and Three Veg... which, as it says on the label, had the patty and then three different kinds of vegetables... carrots glazed with some honey... cauliflower puree... and then grilled broccoli.  Don't get me wrong, it was interesting... and I'm pretty sure both the carrots and the cauliflower imparted some great flavour... and I like broccoli. It was just... not going to make it into my top ten list of burger of the month.

Then on the way back here we called into Haighs to see what they had going on at the factory shop. I'll just say that I need to make what I bought last for a while.

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tenth bloggiversay shopping saturday

Would you believe that on this day a decade ago, I sat down at my old desktop computer in my old apartment and hammered out my first blog post.

And that first week also saw the birth of my movie reviews... although a little more casual than I try to make them now.

So to celebrate I decided to take a wander back through my photo archives and pull out an image from around the time of each bloggiversary (within about a month either way depending on photo availability).

Turned out to be an interesting collection of photos... which in turn are all connected to a blog post...

• 2005 - Wicked Queen Template
• 2006 - Linear Park Walk
• 2007 - Public Art Safari
• 2008 - Graffiti Art Tour
• 2009 - Light Spiral
• 2010 - Birthday Beach
• 2011 - Pixelface
• 2012 - Little Traveller
• 2013 - August in Melbourne
• 2014 - Ghibli Saturday

And 2015 is just a photo of one of my bookshelves that I'd never done anything with.

But given that today is also a Saturday, that means the usual shopping adventures.

Ma was getting her hair did this morning, so I had a bit of a late start... in fact I didn't even get out of bed until 8am, when I should have already been at the supermarket.

Fortunately my solo supermarket trips never take all that long, so when Ma messaged me to say she was on her way down and I had only just started shopping, I still managed to do all my shopping and get back to my place before Ma showed up. Not by much, but still.

I decided to go with a "colour" soup again, based on the original zucchini idea, so I'm trying a "green" soup... I've done that before, but never as a blended soup, so we'll have to see how that works out.

After I'd unpacked everything we headed out and since I wanted to find a heater, we decided to head out to Arndale to see what was available.

Turns out there wasn't much at the price I wanted to pay, so we ended up heading down to West Lakes to see what Target had to offer.

We also did a wander around JB HiFi and I found the third season of The Newsroom, so snapped that one up.

I did end up finding a heater at Target, but I may have made a mistake, since it doesn't blow hot air straight forward, instead it supposedly blows it out the sides of the heater... so I'll have to work out the best way to position it/use it.

That was about it really... we did stop off at the new T2 store, I picked up another box of tea, because addicted. And we had some dumplings for lunch.

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photo friday: eight

It seems like everybody I know is on holiday or attending something cool.

As we speak, both the San Diego Comic Con and the first Australian PAX (Penny Arcade Expo) are happening, and a number of people I follow on Twitter/Instagram are at SDCC, although only one person I know is at PAX (hey Ponk *waves*) currently.

Another of my Twitter buddies is away in the snow, and H-San and Owl Girl are in Melbourne and Sydney respectively.

Granted I am going to Melbourne for a few days at the beginning of August... but even so, I'm, as the young people say, TOTES JELLY! (Young people do say that, right?)

Actually I'm probably only really jealous of Owl Girl... I mean I'm going to Melbourne in a couple of weeks, and I don't know if I could actually do a big convention thing like SDCC or PAX... but Sydney... yeah, that'll make me jealous every time.

And it doesn't help that she's doing to me what I did to her when I was in Sydney and sending through photos and general commentary.

In non-travel jealously news, I forgot my blogiversary for the second year in a row. Yep, yesterday my blog turned 8 years old. I think that's probably pretty old for a blog... if my blog was a dog it would be 45 in dog years.

Wow... and that's what it's been for eight years... me just waffling random crap for 3181 posts. Thanks and apologies in equal measure to anyone who's been paying attention this whole time.

Normally I would have rushed around either trying to dig up an 8 image or trying to take one, but instead, this year I'll just celebrate with the eight beach dude images in this post. The gift that keeps on giving and whatnot.

Enjoy the perving, compliments of my blogiversary.

This week hasn't really been overly complicated, however there are a few things just to jot down for posterity, although there will be varying amounts of vague...

• Sometimes to get exactly what it is you need, you need to pay top dollar for it. Which doesn't exactly lead to buyer's remorse, more buyer's introspection.
• The roast I bought last weekend and then ran out of time to cook on Sunday turned out to be perfect for Monday night's dinner, and the leftover chicken also made it into Tuesday night's soup which was also Wednesday's lunch and Thursday's lunch. Thrifty yet tasty.
• I finished reading the Batman Court of Owls storyline last night... the art by Greg Capullo is amazing, and while the story is great it did perhaps feel a little too "quick"... maybe it made more sense in the original monthly comic books, but all together as graphic novel volumes it felt perhaps a little rushed or perhaps not detailed enough, I'm not completely sure. They were good, don't get me wrong, but I was definitely more of a fan of the art.
• I saw the first image for Series 11 of the Lego Minifigures this morning (I think it showed up at SDCC)... once some better images show up I'll do a whole post about it, but my first thought was, to quote The Godfather 3 "just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in"... dammit. I may have to investigate other storage solutions though.
• I kind of started looking at other apartments for rent this week... well I very nearly went to an open inspection, but decided that while I definitely need more room (and an airconditioner) I'm not sure that I actually need two bedrooms... both due to the cost and what would I actually do with a second bedroom?
• While I've been through all my DVD's and pulled out anything that I no longer want, I have the feeling that I may end up going through again at some stage and being really hardcore about it... really cut down my collection... we'll see.

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seventh blogiversary

Would you believe that I totally forgot that today was my blogiversary!

So much so that I'm actually posting this a day late. And none of the images that I'd lined up were really working... so Lego to the rescue at the last minute.

In a lot of ways, that does kind of sum up this seventh year of the blog... not only the plethora of Lego related things... but also that it's not as much of a focus for me as it once was.

Plus the fact that just at present, my concentration is a little scattered.

But I'm nearly at 3000 posts... and my blog still does a great job showing off my photos and documenting my thoughts.

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sixth blogiversary

Six years, two thousand five hundred and ninety four posts, three thousand and one comments, forty two thousand five hundred and ninety one page views (since July 2009 anyway)... it's my sixth blogiversary!

It's pretty much beyond something I even really think about anymore... it's just routine and what I do...

No grand pronouncements this year... just the observation that my day at work was predominantly concerned with social media in one form or another... seems appropriate somehow.

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fifth blogiversary

Can you believe that it has been 1826 days (that's exactly five years) since I started this blog?

In some ways it feels like I've been doing it for a lot, lot longer... but by the same token, 5 years already? Really?

The odd thing is that the moment I sat down at the computer to start the blog is indelibly burned into my memory... I have no idea what the hell I was doing 5 minutes before, or 5 minutes after, but I remember the moment (possibly it has come up in my memory every 365 days for the past five years).

This last 7 months have been different from the previous 4 years and 5 months though. And that's totally due to the seductive yet demanding little bluebird that has infiltrated my life... Twitter.

Things that I might have stored up and turned into a post now just get thrown out 140 characters at a time, so between Twitter, Google Reader and my own blog sometimes it's the latter that suffers. Actually, my own blog is always the loser in those situations... or I end up not doing other things to make blogging time.

It's the modern dilemma really... far too much information to deal with given the amount of hours in the day... information overload.

I've been thinking about this in light of the blog for a while now... having published something every single day (sometimes more than once a day) since about October 2005 (I thought there was a post where I specifically mentioned it, but buggered if I can find it now), I know that I regularly struggle to find things to say on Sundays, Wednesdays and every other Tuesday. And there have been a couple of instances of late where I haven't even realised I didn't post something until 11pm... or just pulled something substandard out of my ass (not literally obviously... it's not that kind of blog).

Bad blogging yani... bad...

I also know that sometimes it has felt much more like an obligation than a pleasure.

And no, this isn't me taking the long way around to say that I'm shutting down the blog, I just think I'm not going to post every day unless I particularly have something worth saying or showing. Essentially I think it's just going to mean that Sundays, Wednesdays and every other Tuesday will probably tend towards the vacant.

Hopefully it also means that the stuff I do end up posting will be better... but we all know that that's not especially likely don't we...

I will just briefly add that I'm continually thankful for this blog... it allows me to vent when I'm cranky and share my joy... it acts as my memory and my art gallery... but mostly I'm thankful for the people who come here and leave their own thoughts... especially those that I now consider friends.

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fourth blogiversary

Last week I posted the following comment as part of a meme...

Today 4 years ago: I start a blog. I have no idea that it will happen or what it will mean.

I've tweaked it so that it still makes sense today, because it was one of those sentences that leapt into my brain fully formed and I honestly didn't realise what I'd written until I stopped and reread it.

My blog did quite literally sneak up on me out of nowhere. I didn't wait until the first of the month or the first of the year or even pick a favourite numbered day to start it... I'd been cleaning/clearing up all day and as far as I remember, halfway through whatever job I was doing I sat down at the computer, typed in the address for Blogger, and boom, I had a blog.

If you'd told me way back when that I would have a blog and I would post something everyday I would most likely have laughed at you. Now here I am, 1860 posts later (that's about 8.5 posts a week)...

And if you'd told me that it would keep me sane and prod my creativity and connect me with some amazing people... well that I might have believed, having had similar experiences with other websites. But when I sat down to type those fateful words "Okay... here we are... I finally have a blog" I had no idea how much the blog or the people I met through it would invade my life.

I guess what I'm saying is this... thank you all for coming along for the ride... I know it hasn't always been earth-shatteringly important or exciting, but I guess that's just me really. And while some people have disappeared along the way (and I still think about some of them from time to time), I'm glad you've all been around!

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third blogiversay

Three whole years!

Who says that I have the attention span of wet cardboard? I've managed to keep this puppy going this long without getting bored with it... woohoo me!

It's always good to take stock at a time like this... which, for me, usually ends up being a set of fairly random stats... so lets see... three years, that's 1096 days... 1432 posts... which makes my batting average about 1.3 posts a day (or about nine posts a week)...

More specifically, the highlights include...

• 180 Currently Reading books (actually it's more than that, but I've re-read a few, so I'm only counting them once)
• 153 Random Hotness posts (which is well over 300 photos of hot guys)
• 128 Photo Friday posts, not to mention another assorted 185 featured photo posts... which just adds up to a hell of a lot of photos...
  
• 90 movie reviews (I'm starting to get curious about what movie 100 is going to be) and 14 DVD reviews (of one sort or another)
• 20 template changes
• And of course, the proverbial partridge in the allegorical pear tree...

In other blogging news for the past year there's been a trip to Sydney, the discovery of an awesome street artist, the start of a new photography project (which I will admit, has kind dried up at present, as well as changing from it's original intention), the reintroduction of an old friend, a major injury, and another bout of brief yet continuous mid-year work...

I also had to fight against my normal urge to wait until 3:33 to post this... since it's my third blogiversary and all... and sometimes I'm just that cheesy (and I swear, the fact that there is a three in the time at all is a fluke)...

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second blogiversary

Wow... two years already!

You know, sometimes it feels like I've been doing this forever, and sometimes it just feels like yesterday that I took my maiden voyage...

But let's see... in the past two years (or 730 days if we're going to get particular about it... and I do love to get particular about things now don't I), there have been...

• 912 posts (including this one)... which, much like last year, works out to be around 1.2 posts per day
• 127 Currently Reading books
• 100 Random Hotnesses
• 78 Photo Fridays
• 65 Movie Reviews
• 55 Monday Montages
• 53 Memes
• 15 Templates (including one major shift from one look to another)
• 15 "Thoughts on"
• 12 Recipes
• And yet again a whole truckload of often inappropriately used ellipsis...

Here's hoping that Year 3 offers up even more tales of interest for me to ramble on about!

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yaniblog's first birthday

Picture it, Sicily, 1956...

Oh, wait, that's not me, that's Sophia... sorry... I watched very nearly the whole second season of Golden Girls yesterday... it gets to you after a while...

Let's try again... picture it, Adelaide, 2005... no, sadly, it doesn't quite have the same ring to it...

But either way it was a whole year ago today that yaniblog made it's maiden voyage!

I did some sums and in the last 365 days, I've made 437 posts (which, for the geeky amongst us, works out to be 1.2 posts per day)... and of those posts, there have been...

• 461 comments (not including mine... which would bring the total up to 605)
• 66 commentators
• 64 Currently Reading books
• 48 Random Hotnesses
• 33 Movie Reviews
• 30 Monday Montages (well, 29, plus the original purple montage)
• 27 Photo Fridays
• 17 Camera Club visits
• 14 Memes (plus 3 Expose Yourself style photo memes)
• 9 Templates
• 6 Monday Musings
• 5 "Thoughts on"
• 4 Recipes (plus Tom's Chicken Curry)
• 2 Walk maps
• and a hell of a lot of ellipsis...

So here's to the last twelve months... now onwards with the next twelve...

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