I suppose I could have titled this post 5 years down the drain, but I didn’t. I didn’t because I’ve enjoyed a lot of the minutes I’ve spent blogging. Oct 3, 2002 I joined the blogosphere with 3 posts and a design that’s changed very little over the years. 1420 posts, 629 comments, and a switch from Greymatter to Movable Type later, I’m still writing. Along the way over 110,000 different people have visited (according to eXTReMe Trackgin) and I’ve picked up two too infrequent co-authors. Eric Olsen at Blogcritics got me started in blogging, with a short run as a reviewer there. So again, thank you Eric, and may my reader(s) forgive you.

I’ve had a webpage for almost 11 years now; I started out in AOL Hometown when I put a family newsletter online, and then branched out shortly thereafter into a bloglike creation I called Stimulus and Response. In those days, I did most of my writing at the Fruit of the Murphy Loins various practices or waiting before events (for you non-parents out there, you have to get to things like concerts and dance receitals long before the scheduled start time when your little darling is in them). I continued to branch out under the umbrella of Funmurphys.com, but once the blog got going, all the rest has fallen by the wayside. In internet years, I’m so old the blog should be called Kevin 5.0.

Thanks for reading, 100 years ago I couldn’t have hoped my writing would reach over 100,000 people all over the world.