Happy BlogDay To Me!
Junkyard Blog's first post went up Dec. 1st, 2001. Six years is forty-two in people years, and the JYB ain't a pup anymore--but we're still going strong. Thanks to Bryan for handing me the keys in April 2006, and thanks to all of you who read, comment, and link here and make this so much fun. As I said on the occasion of way after JYB's fifth Blog-Day:
Blogs are easy to start up, and easy to abandon. With most of them, that's no great loss. But some of them become more than blogs and become instituions. I don't mean that in a grand pretentious way, like the New York Times thinks of itself as an Important Institution, but rather in a decidedly lower-case way. An institution can be something as simple as a rule, or a custom, or a habit, like a five o'clock beer with your buddies, or a favorite hole-in-the-wall restaurant with an amiable clientele, or birthday parties (even when you forget them). Those are institutions, and they make the world tolerable, and they're valuable to have around.If I have to be in an institution, this is a pretty good one to be in!But if no one decides institutions are worth preserving, they die out. So, despite not having the time (who does?) and despite working in a conservative-unfriendly industry in a blue state (okay, in part because of that) I jumped at the chance to keep this one going a little longer.
A final thanks to the Duty Officer for seamless maintenance and for letting me back into the blog when I accidentally delete my password cookie, and to all the guest bloggers who have contributed here this year: Okie, Geoff, CCW Bass (who remains MIA) and Anwyn.