Guess What’s Finally Up to Date?
This blog.
Guess who cares?
No one.
18 Years of Blogging
So guess what? Eigenblogger is an adult now.
That’s right: today is my 18th blogging anniversary!
The fact that I have a daily record* of my life for the past 18 years is pretty cool. Back when I first started blogging, I had no intention of it lasting anywhere near this long. Hell, I didn’t know if I’d make it to my proposed 50 days in a row back on May 1, 2006.
But I did, then just kept going from there. I guess giving into peer pressure – in this case, the peer pressure from my high school friends to join MySpace – is a good thing sometimes.
ANYWAY.
Today will be my 6,576th blog post. That means I have 3,424 more posts until I hit my ultimate goal of 10,000. Will I keep going after that?
Probably.
Assuming we’re all not dead by then.
WOO!
*I guess the word “record” is very loosely used here, as like 60% of the time my blogs have nothing to do with went on during the day on which they were written, but whatevs. An entry is an entry!
A Question Nobody Asked:
“How do you blog when you’re away from your computer/internet?”
An answer nobody cares about: I type said blog in my “Notes” app on my phone while sitting in the bathroom away from everyone.
There.
Now go away.
Half Life (not the game, for once)
Do y’all know what’s special about the date July 27, 2024?
It’s the day that will mark my having blogged half my life. And considering I’ll be 36 (almost 36 and a half) then, that’s a long time to have blogged.
That’s pretty wild, right?
A party shall happen.
(It won’t.)
Make Like a Baby and Head Out
YO so I love Procreate.
Why?
Because I was able to use it to finally, finally able to create a header for Eigenblogger that used my own handwriting rather than a font. Check it:
I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time, but the dimensions of the header file are weird and the few prototype headers I drew just didn’t work with those dimensions no matter how much I modified them.
I like it. I’m sure I’ll have to modify it as I will likely change up my color scheme again at some point, but for now it’s all matchy-matchy AND it’s my handwriting. Finally.
YAY!
Blog Facelift
I’ve redone some of the custom CSS for my blog. Observe:
Before:
After:
That’s one of my OLD headers on there; I don’t know if I like it. I don’t like the other one anymore. Maybe I’ll make a new one.
Blogging is Lonely
I’ve mentioned this on here before, but it’s really sad to me how few people blog anymore. Didn’t it seem like everyone had a blog back in the mid-aughts? I don’t know if that’s just because everyone had a MySpace and blogging was pretty well integrated into it, but everyone seemed chill with keeping an online journal of sorts.
Nowadays, though, it’s hard to find bloggers in general, let along daily bloggers. It’s not like I ever interacted with anyone in the blogging community apart from commenting on some of my friends’ blog posts, but it still feels a lot more lonely nowadays. I wish more of y’all would blog – I’d read them, gladly!
Anyway.
Seventeen
Today marks SEVENTEEN YEARS of blogging, yo.
It’s been 17 years since senior year of high school. Isn’t that wild? Does it seem like it’s been that long or does it seem like it’s been longer?
Anyway, I’m still holding off doing any sort of big celebration because I’m waiting for the 18th anniversary (when Eigenblogger is finally an adult, haha), but this yearly anniversary always has to be acknowledged.
Here’s to another year and more!
Progress!
I have now printed and received twelve years of my blogs. That’s May 2006 to April 2018. I’m still formatting the later years, but I really do hope to get a complete hard copy at some point. I think that would be really cool (assuming I have the shelf space, haha).
Anyway.
NoJo MoJo
So back in the Stone Age of my blogging, I made Johari and Nohari windows on some website and asked all my friends to fill them out for me.
Well, who knew that SIXTEEN YEARS LATER that those links would still be active.
What all did people even say?
Me? Overdramatic???? NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!1!!1!!!!!!!one
(I think I made that same damn joke in 2006).
Vlog?
I’ve wondered about this before (and have maybe posted about it, too), but I’m curious if I should try a week of vlogging rather than blogging. It’s essentially the same thing with different formats, right?
Pros of a Vlog Week:
- Variety!
- Easier to show you things that are hard to show via regular blogging
- I could still type up the transcripts so that I don’t technically skip a “traditional” blog
- I could include a lot of Pepper
Cons of a Vlog Week:
- It’s not technically blogging the same way I’ve been doing it, so I’m not sure if it would actually count
- You’d have to listen to my horrible voice
- There’s a chance you’d have to see my horrible face/body
- I’d have to type up the transcripts so that I don’t technically skip a “traditional” blog
- NOBODY CARES
So yeah, not sure if I’ll ever vlog. Blogging’s a dying art form, anyway; it needs at least one loyal adopter!
6,000
Hello, faithful readers (all one of you)!
Today is my SIX THOUSANDTH BLOG!
It’s been 6,000 days since May 1, 2006. It’s also 4,000 days until I hit 10,000 blog posts.
That’s pretty wild.
(I know no one cares, but whatever.)
I Need to Post These Blogs, Yo
[This is a casual reminder to myself so that when I’m scrolling through a 300+ page Word document of these blogs in late 2023, I get off my butt and actually get these up on WordPress]
Edit from December 2023: HAHAHAHA THESE STILL AREN’T POSTED WHY AM I SUCH A FAILURE AT LIFE
Edit from January 2024: HAHAHAHA IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING, SUCK IT, PAST ME!
16 Years of Blogging
Today marks my SIXTEENTH anniversary of blogging! Counting today, that’s a total of 5,845 consecutive days of blogging.
I’d say that’s pretty cool.
Sixteen isn’t a super exciting anniversary year (unless it’s your age, I guess), so I’m not going to do anything special for it. But when we hit twenty…watch out!
Periodic
Remember that “Periodic Table of Academic Disciplines” blog post that I made like 300* years ago?
That blog post gets an insane amount of views compared to my other posts. The table itself has been used in quite a few things, too.
Here (slide 4)
Here (slides 8 and 9)
A blog post about it
Kinda cool.
*Ten. It was ten years ago.
It’s a blog!
No one cares!!!!!1!11!111one!
Ah, What The Hell.
Let’s classify Eigenblogger.
Is the writer of Eigenblogger “happy” or “upset?”
Huh, that’s surprising. I guess most of my posts are frivolous drivel, anyway, and probably by default seem happier than upset.
Which of 21 classics authors’ styles does Eigenblogger resemble? Here are just the top few:
Yeah, I could see it.
Age of author?
Hahaha, I apparently write like an old fogey or a youth.
Myers-Briggs?
Yup.
Funners.
I Blog Too Much
Guess what, you nerds with turds? This is my 5,500th blog post!
Yes, I’ve been doing this vapid nonsense for 5,500 days. That’s 15.06 years.
That’s ridiculous.
Anyway, thanks to anyone who still reads this drivel. I don’t know why you do it, but thanks.
SHAZAM!
Speak the Speak
I hadn’t heard “pencil crayons” until Nate said it when referring to my colored pencils. I guess it makes sense, though. They’re like crayons but in pencil form?
I have never heard “garburator” in my life and if I didn’t see what it was referring to, I would think it was Canada’s name for Bigfoot or something.
What kind of nerd is down with “soccer baseball?” “Kickball” is a fairly unambiguous term; you’re kicking a ball like in soccer, but you’re doing so in a game form that’s like baseball. “Soccer baseball” could imply that, but it could also imply that you’re whacking soccer balls around with a baseball bat. Which I guess is kinda cool.
Definitely heard it referred to as “hydro bill” in BC.
Odd.
15 Years of Blogging
Fifteen years ago today, I got peer-pressured into getting a MySpace. I wrote a blog post that first day and in it, I jokingly said that I’d blog daily for 50 days. I was pretty sure that wouldn’t happen.
Now, fifteen years later, I have a daily record of the last 5,480 days of my life in my blog.
I started when I was 18. I’m 33 now.
That’s pretty impressive.
I’m busy as hell and thus unfortunately don’t have time to do a special thing for today, but I’ll make up for it on my 20th blogging anniversary, I promise!
(As if anyone cares.)
SPEED THE READ
Nate always tells me I’m a very fast reader and I’m like nah, not really. I honestly don’t think I read super fast. I just read at a somewhat quick pace because that makes things easier to read for whatever reason. Reading slowly just doesn’t do it for me.
So here’s a little speed reader test thingy that I wanted to try.
Level 12 is pretty much the top for me, though I can get the gist of the higher ones. And I definitely don’t read that quickly when I’m reading on my treadmill and whatnot, haha.
Anyway. Kinda cool. Give it a shot!
One Month!
Do y’all know what happens one month from now?
I hit my 15 year blogging anniversary.
That’s…that’s a freaking long time to be blogging. Hopefully I’ll get these blogs updated by then, haha.
K THAT’S ALL BYE
I can’t remember the last time I GAVE FEWER SHITS
Like everyone else, I’m not having a great time with life right now. Sorry for the terrible blogging.
(I mean, it’s not like I haven’t engaged in terrible blogging before, but now I have an excuse.)
I’m Glad I Have This Blog
I’m pretty sure I’ve said this on here before, but I am very glad I have a record of the last 14+ years of my life in the form of this blog. The reason I’m particularly glad of that as of late is because this whole COVID nonsense has made me even more nostalgic than I normally am and I like having the ability to go back and read about whatever nonsense I was up to five years ago, ten years ago, back at the end of high school, etc.
It allows me to re-live some of that normalcy that we’re all missing so terribly right now, and that’s been helpful for retaining at least some degree of sanity during the last few months.
So yay?
I feel like GARBAGE
I haven’t felt this absolutely shitty in a long time. Not sure what’s going on, but I definitely don’t feel like blogging today.
Sorryz.
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