My blog passed the 500,000 hit mark yesterday – people have now visited my site over half a million times. I know that, given I’ve been blogging for about eight years, that’s not that special, and that the major blogs and websites get that in a week, or a day, but for me it seems a major milestone. To be honest, I didn’t really expect to keep blogging for thus long, but, as I wrote on Tuesday, something compels me to write down my thoughts every couple of days, and I can’t see that abating.

Looking back over past entries, my blog seems like a real miscellany of ideas and topics, as well as a record of my life over the past eight years. When I first began blogging, I was still living at home with my parents, finding topics online to blog about, or recording the day to day occurrences of the Goodsell household. Things have changed quite a bit since then. I’m rather pleased my blog spans my time at university, for it gives me near enough a full record of one of the happiest times of my life. Uni supplied most of the dramatis personae of my blog – people like Charlie and Ricardio and Steve, whom I mention quite a bit, and who have starred in some of the best entries. But there will soon be more characters to introduce, including a man known somewhat disconcertingly around these parts as chopper. As much as my blog is for me a record, it also is for me a reminder that there are some great entries yet to write. This drama is far from over. Indeed, it seems I’ll soon have several weddings to detail, not least my own!

You know, I reckon I’ve written nigh on 100,000 words for my blog over the years. I think that’s pretty good going. Granted, they are a cripple’s ill-informed ramblings, largely uncoordinated and haphazard, but I’m proud of most of my writings here, and I’m proud I’ve kept it up. I’ll do my best to keep blogging; for some reason, people seem to want to read what I write on here.