One ain’t the loneliest number
It’s official. This site has been going for 1 year as of today… and that is hard for me to believe. Sometimes, it feels like I have been doing this for far longer. Other times, it feels like I just started it a few months ago.
A lot has changed in the last year.
When I first decided to create this page, it was mostly for the benefit of 1 or 2 friends back home. When I was still living there, we would get together on Saturdays for lunch. We would spend a few hours eating and talking about games. During the week, we would e-mail constantly talking about what was going on in this game or what new game we were waiting on.
When I moved, that all stopped. We tried for a while to keep up in e-mails, but my new job kept me too busy to do much of that and they had less time at work to respond or send e-mails as well. So, I created this site as a place to write out what we would normally discuss.
The timing was strange for starting this as I was really between games. I had quit EQ 5 months before and started playing SWG again. At the time that I began this blog, I had burned out on SWG again, Vanguard had launched and imploded, and I was very much between games. Going back and reading through my early entries, they were very much about nothing at all.
I never really imagined that this site would spread beyond those few initial friends. Now granted, it is by no means one of the major players in the blogverse, but it has definately grown beyond what I ever thought it would.
From the day I launched this site last May 16 to the end of the month, it gained fewer than 50 hits. The next month, it scored just slightly over 60 hits. It hovered in the 60 hits per month area for some time.
Today, one year later, I get between 1000 and 1800 hits per month. I have had just under 10,000 hits total. This post marks post #272 that I have written. I have made several new friends from this site and have come to appreciate aspects of the games I play in a whole different manner… by seeing what other people enjoy and then looking for those elements that I had missed myself.
I’ve gone from being a part-time SWG player looking for a new game to a full-time EQ2 player. I have moments of wanting to play something else, but I’ve mostly been dedicated to EQ2 since last October. I am again dipping my feet into SWG on a very limited basis and am seriously considering re-upping the All Access on one of my accounts so that I can continue in SWG on that same limited basis as well as jumping into EQ1 and Vanguard on occasion.
I can honestly say that I enjoy keeping this site… mostly due to the interaction with others that it has created. I love to write and babble about what I am doing in whatever game I’m playing, but beyond that, I love the fact that I get the chance to meet and chat with new people on a regular basis who share the same interests as me.
So thank you to those who visit here daily or occasionally. It makes me happy when I see each day the number of people who have visited and read my incoherent babblings. A year ago today, I had no idea if this site would even last to the end of the month. Today, I find that I’m curious to see where we’ll all be on May 16, 2009.
I don’t know the answer to that obviously, but I do know that it will be an interesting ride… full of wonder, adventure and excitement.
I personally can’t wait!