Last Sunday’s post was this blog’s 500th. Some blogs I follow have thousands of posts. Some, with multiple contributors, publish more than 500 posts each and every year. Many celebrated their 500th post a long time ago if they bothered to note it at all. Of course there are others that caught my attention and subscription only to fade out after a few articles. They will never reach 500. Then there are the sporadic blogs that may or may not. They start a short series of posts with “Sorry it’s been so long” then, after a return to silence, do it all over again. And I know there are many more that never caught either my attention or subscription. So, even though 500 isn’t a major milestone for everyone, I’m pretty sure that a lot more blogs don’t reach it than do. Therefore, by golly, I’m going to celebrate. And, by celebrate, I mean brag.

In the initial, “Hello again, world”, post on August 7, 2011, I stated my goal of posting at least every Sunday and, with a single exception, I’ve done that. The blog has never been focused on anything in particular but from the beginning I intended to announce road trips that were being documented elsewhere on the site and, fairly early on, I started doing some reviews. With the exception of a couple of early trip announcements that filled Sunday slots, these announcements and reviews, along with some truly “miscellaneous” posts, were in addition to the Sunday morning articles which means it didn’t take 500 weeks to reach 500 posts. It took 6 years and 8 months or about 344 weeks.

There have been 185 “formula” posts with predetermined topics and formats. 48 trip announcements and 7 year end reviews are included in that count. The other 130 are “filler” posts used when “my world is too busy or too boring for a current events piece to be completed in time for the Sunday posting”. These are typically created in advance and can be posted without regard to date. They come from four groups. There were 11 My Apps chapters, 20 My Gear chapters, 30 My Wheels chapters, and 69 Trip Peeks. Trip Peeks and trip announcements are close to brainless. The others usually require at least a little thought and some photo editing. Trip Peeks and trip announcements require little or no photo editing and the only writing involved is a one or two paragraph summary of the associated trip. The blog was a little more than a year old when I resorted to posting the first Trip Peek. I’d completed 107 trips at the time and that seemed like an endless supply. I’ve added 41 trips since then but I’ve used the peek trick more often than expected and my “endless supply” is down to 79.

Will this blog get to 1000? Don’t know. I didn’t expect this website to live for ten years or even five and it’s closing in on twenty. The blog is hardly consistent in terms of subject matter. Topics have ranged from museums, to music, to food, to cars, to the blog itself and the tools involved. The quality might not be all that consistent either. I’m certainly not the best person to judge that but I don’t think it’s ever been horrible. Nor has it ever been earth shatteringly great. What has been consistent is the timing. Or maybe dependable is a better word. Yeah, dependable probably is the better way to describe having some sort of post every Sunday and then some. And that’s what I’m bragging about.