10 year blogaversary!!

I was looking at how a recent post looks on my blog (instead of just the post editor) and saw the sidebar with the blog archive widget (I <3 old school web design, which is why this blog looks so outdated. It will remain so. Pry this theme from my cold, dead hands.). Looking at that, I realized that it's my 10 year blogaversary! Or rather, was in January, but it's still relatively early in the year, so close enough. 

It feels satisfying in a small way to have maintained a blog continuously for so long, even though at times the posts were extremely sporadic. Still, I posted at least a few times every year of this blog's existence. I'm sure there's plenty of stuff in the archives that's rather cringeworthy, but I'm keeping that all up for the sake of posterity. I hope to continue to make posts about "a... unique topic." 

It's actually rather strange to think about, the more I think about it. There's random stuff from the past 10 years that at some point I thought about and decided to make blog posts about. Isn't it strange to think about, having a blog that's been around since 2015? It feels like almost an entirely different era by now, and honestly, it kind of was. But this blog has been around all this time, chronicling (some) things I've thought about over the course of that time period. I have grown up and changed in some ways since then, but in other ways I think I'm relatively the same. 

I am/can be an extremely verbose person, which this blog allows me to have an outlet for even if no one reads it. If you do read it, whoever you are, thanks, I guess? I'm honestly not sure what anyone might get out of reading this blog, but that's the reader's prerogative. 

I <3 blogs. I wish blogging would make a comeback, just people writing blogs about all sorts of stuff (like this one!). General personal blogs, blogs about a specific interest, all kinds of blogs. Blogging feels like the anti-Instagram, the anti-Tiktok in this day and age. No algorithms, no filters, just words and sometimes photos. A vestige of the old internet. Blog like it's 2005, or 2010, or 2015. It's what newsletters are supposed to be. GTFO of here with long-form "newsletters" in my "inbox." Just make a blog, cowards.  

And since it's now the 14th, happy pi day! 3.14.25