{"id":22576,"date":"2011-09-10T16:46:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T22:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=22576"},"modified":"2014-11-07T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T20:08:05","slug":"ten-years-fly-when-youre-having-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/10\/ten-years-fly-when-youre-having-fun.html","title":{"rendered":"Ten Years fly when you&#8217;re having fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Badger-10th-Birthday-2-Credit-Phil-Houghton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22578\" title=\"Badger 10th Birthday 2 - Credit Phil Houghton\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Badger-10th-Birthday-2-Credit-Phil-Houghton-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Badger-10th-Birthday-2-Credit-Phil-Houghton-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Badger-10th-Birthday-2-Credit-Phil-Houghton-650x432.jpg 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Badger-10th-Birthday-2-Credit-Phil-Houghton.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Holy Moley &#8212; I completely missed my <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/08\/24\/testing_testing.html\">Tenth Blogoversary<\/a>. \u00a0Yes, Ten Years Ago (back on 24 August), I was sitting at home alone, while Margie was off playing D&amp;D at Doyce&#8217;s, and I decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/08\/24\/and_there_shall.html\">try out that Newfangled Blogging Thang<\/a> that all the cool kids were doing.<\/p>\n<p>What hath Blog wrought?<\/p>\n<p>So here I am at 17,913 posts (including this one), 30,655 approved comments.<\/p>\n<p>I started off using Blogger. In relatively short order (three months later), I changed over to Movable Type, and stayed there for quite some time until MT4 came out. Faced with making major changes anyway in order to upgrade the platform, I switched over to WordPress in February 2009, without any real regrets.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some today would suggest that my &#8220;real&#8221; blog \u00a0platform is Google Reader and Twitter, which route through here. \u00a0I do hope I get enough &#8220;new&#8221; content of size posted here to make the visits worth it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/keepcalmblogon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22579\" title=\"Keep Calm and Blog On\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/keepcalmblogon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/keepcalmblogon.jpg 296w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/keepcalmblogon-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 85vw, 296px\" \/><\/a>My most popular posts, in terms of views (at least since I changed over to WordPress):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/17\/sarah-palin-is-a-dolt.html\">Sarah Palin is a dolt<\/a> (61147)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/20\/wdw_day_5_adden.html\">WDW \u2013 Day 5 \u2013 Addendum: The Stitch Epiphany<\/a> (16856)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/20\/doppeldribble.html\">Doppeldribble<\/a> (11213)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/15\/dwonka.html\">Dwonka<\/a> (8024)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/24\/foosa_aaaahhhh.html\">\u201cFoosa aaaahhhh!\u201d<\/a> (7410)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/17\/disney_fairies.html\">Disney Fairies<\/a> (7176)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/22\/tv_review_the_mentalist.html\">TV Review:\u00a0<em>The Mentalist<\/em><\/a> (6238)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/26\/its_all_on_the_wrist_redu.html\">It\u2019s all on the wrist, redux<\/a> (6105)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/20\/i_think_thats_the_plutoni.html\">I think that\u2019s the Plutonium Anniversary<\/a> (4525)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/05\/i-wouldnt-want-to-belong-to-any-club-that-would-have-me-as-a-member.html\">\u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member\u201d<\/a> (3727)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yeah, I scratch my head over some of those, too.<\/p>\n<p>My most popular posts (based on comment count):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Why U.S. Bank sucks, and Margie is marvelous\" href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/05\/why_us_bank_suc.html\">Why U.S. Bank sucks, and Margie is marvelous<\/a> &#8211; 224 comments<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Guns, guns, guns, guns ...\" href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/10\/guns-guns-guns-guns.html\">Guns, guns, guns, guns &#8230;<\/a> &#8211; 164 comments<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Rules of Jaywalking\" href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/09\/the_rules_of_ja.html\">The Rules of Jaywalking<\/a> &#8211; 52 comments<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sarah Palin is a dolt\" href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/17\/sarah-palin-is-a-dolt.html\">Sarah Palin is a dolt<\/a> &#8211; 49 comments<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The worst part ...\" href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/03\/the_worst_part.html\">The worst part &#8230;<\/a> &#8211; 44 comments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What are the coolest things about having a blog?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The people I&#8217;ve met (or learned more from) through dialog here.<\/li>\n<li>The chance to work through my own thoughts on things. \u00a0No, really. \u00a0Despite what it may seem, I try to consider the things I write, especially on the screedy side of things. \u00a0That provides opportunity to research, and to change my mind about things, too. (And I&#8217;ve changed my mind on a lot of things over the years.)<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s like an extended memory. \u00a0What was I thinking on Election Night 2004? \u00a0Well, I can look that up. \u00a0When did we go on vacation to Santa Fe, and where did we have that yummy dinner? \u00a0It&#8217;s in the blog. (Assuming I can find it, \u00a0of course.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blogging-13019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22581\" title=\"Blogging - We're Going to Need More Monkeys\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blogging-13019-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blogging-13019-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blogging-13019.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>My biggest regret about blogging? \u00a0That I didn&#8217;t start a couple of years earlier, so that I could have covered the birth and infancy of my daughter. \u00a0Live and learn.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here we are. \u00a0Ten years later. \u00a0Quite a bit grayer, hopefully a scosh wiser, but still blogging.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to another ten years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Moley &#8212; I completely missed my Tenth Blogoversary. \u00a0Yes, Ten Years Ago (back on 24 August), I was sitting at home alone, while Margie was off playing D&amp;D at Doyce&#8217;s, and I decided to try out that Newfangled Blogging Thang that all the cool kids were doing. What hath Blog wrought? So here I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/10\/ten-years-fly-when-youre-having-fun.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ten Years fly when you&#8217;re having fun&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging","category-disney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blogging-13019.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9198,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/27\/potpourri_3.html","url_meta":{"origin":22576,"position":0},"title":"Potpourri","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 27-Jan-06 9:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"A melange of articles I don't have quite the get-up-and-go to get-up-and-blog in detail: Kids are blogging! 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