I have now been blogging under this psuedonym for 15 years to the day. That's a bit of a milestone really. I never really thought I would keep it going for so long!I initially started, just to have a profile on Livejournal, as I had some friends who were doing it, and to be able to comment, you needed a profile. I didn't really have much to add of my own.
Back then, I had finished my BSc, but not yet started my PhD. I was working in Edinburgh, but still staying near, and socialising in Glasgow. I was between two stages of my life. What I did end up using livejournal for, was to document my travels. Somewhat for my friends, mostly as a way of letting my family know what I was up to (although, to this day, Idon't think any member of my family has done more than look at one or two pages, not very blog literate as far as I can make out, their loss!).
Once I moved to Edinburgh, there was something of an explosion in the number of people who had livejournals, and used it as a means of communication. This was in the days before Facebook was as ubiquitous as it is now. So when it came to the 5 year anniversary of my blog, it was something of an event, if you measure events on blogs by the number of comments you garner (the only metric then readily available).Since then, my internet following has dwindled,as Livejournal use dwindled and other social media sites took over. In May 2012, I moved this blog over to blogger. I did this due to LJ coming under DOS attacks, and I was scared I'd lose my posts. Since then, I have been slowly trasnfering posts from there to here. Someday I might complete the transition. Maybe.
So, since coming here, I have lost followers, I don't mind that, I don't go looking for more followers either. If they happen by, that's okay. I don't mean to sound defeatist here, but I blog here mostly for myself. I use this as a place to post my thoughts on a subject, and usually in doing so, I have to research them, and in that way I learn more.I also use this as a place to keep a history of what I do. Of where we travel, to track major events in my life, and post pictures of the kids as they grow. These things I do as a means of family history. My kids can come on here and read this. Read of me and my thoughts and doings before they were born. Before K and I were married, and even before I met K. They can have access to all this, which I find amazing. It is a form of open diary, backed up, and available wherever, whenever they get round to reading it. In that regard, it'll be here after I die, and will be there for possible future generations of my family, as a geneological tool. How cool is that! I love that idea,
So that's why I still blog. I blog for me. If there's a larger audience, that's all good.
So here's to the next 15 years of posts of our holidays together. Of putting memories and theories out there into the ether, to be picked up in the future, or not.
Hello future. Life is good here, how's things with you?
