State of the Blog and Head Count

I thought it might be time for a status report of sorts, a kind of "state of the blog" post for lack of a better term. I'm still having fun with this and don't plan on quitting any time soon. I'm also still actively searching for old classmates, and as I can I'm adding their names to the email list. To those of you getting emails from me asking you to join in, please don't worry, I'm harmless and don't mean to be a pest, but why not give it a go and answer me. To those of you I haven't emailed yet, why don't you beat me to the punch and email me first. Let us know how you are doing and join in our little group. My email is on my profile page, or click on my name in the tag board to the left and you can get it there too.

Most of these posts come from the empty space between my ears, but if you look close you'll see that Brenda Nicholson has added some and there are comments to the posts from several more people. Also, one or two of the posts were brought about by comments I've gotten in emails, in fact the entire blog is based on a comment made in an email by Kathey. So it’s not just me, a lot of people have contributed.

In the interest of making it easier to move around and communicate, I have placed several things on the side board that takes up the left side of the blog.

-- First, there is a tag board, a “tag, you’re it” kind of thing. It's for quick little notes, hellos, etc. If you hover over the poster’s name in the tag board you should get a popup that displays the date it was posted. If the poster added their email address, you can click on their name to get that.

-- Next there are links I've added to go directly to the yearbook pictures and to the yearbook group picture.

-- After that is a guestbook. It’s similar to the tag board except it’s stored on another page and the notes can be longer.

-- The Previous Posts is a listing of the past 10 or so posts. You can click on the post’s title to go directly to it.

-- Next are the archives. I have the blog set up to archive each month. By clicking on the month you can see the posts added that month.

-- Next is the list of contributors. I would love to see this list grow a lot. You can contribute posts by signing into Blogger.com. If anyone wants to contribute and has any questions, please feel free to email me, and I will offer any help I can.

I’ve also added a couple of things that run in the background to keep stats on the blog. There have been 236 hits in the last 14 days, or about 17 hits a day. I have the hit counter set to exclued me since I come and go on the blog so often. Those are not exactly the same numbers put up by Google, but what the heck, I'm satisfied.

And last but far from least, I want to thank everybody that has contributed to this or has joined the email list. You folks are absolutely terrific, and I very humbly appreciate you joining in to make this not just my blog, but our blog. Here’s the ones who have contributed, joined in, or simply just sent words of encouragement since this thing started. Thanks buds... 'preciate it. :)