One year!

This writing is the 365th post in a row on this blog, when I started this project a year ago I didn't really expect to actually see it through a full year, figuring instead I'd lose interest after a month or two and trail off, instead this blog has become the second longest running project I have ever done, the first being opening the store, my marriage is not counted as I feel like you are probably doing something wrong if you think about it as something you have to do every night.

I'm proud of myself! Sure not every post was a winner, and sometimes I cheated a little bit by having a post primarily consisting of content I stole from someone else, but the majority of the posts actually had some effort into it and I even did research on a few topics and learned stuff I didn't know before. Putting my thoughts into writing has required that I actually think about those thoughts some, and I have found myself changing my own mind on a couple things

My readership is pretty small, which if I am being honest is mildly disappointing because I apparently want to become internet famous or something. My average post gets 8-12 readers, some only one or two, and at most I got thirty unique views a couple times over the summer. But it hasn't been about showing off(much). I started this as a sort of depression management thing, see it helps me when I am not feeling in control of events, or myself, if I have something that I have convinced myself has to be done every day, so I get to accomplish at least one thing daily no matter how shitty anything else is, making it public might not have been strictly necessary, but the idea that other people might notice, even if it is just one or two folks, helps motivate me to do it.

I've always said to myself that if I made it a full year I would be allowed one day off from posting, so now I have earned it. However that doesn't mean I am going to skip tomorrow, rather I will save the day off for some day when I really don't want to do it, or am somewhere that I can't conveniently write. If I go another full year without using my day off, then I will have two days off to play hooky on the blog with.

And yes, I am planning on keeping this up, I still need the consistency of having one thing that I can control and do every day, plus the election is still ongoing, and my political posts will be part of a book once this is all over, so I can't stop making those either.

That's all I got tonight, probably go back to yelling about Trump or something tomorrow night. Thanks for reading!