As we reach a milestone today, I need to thank YOU for reading this blog

About 5 minutes ago, this blog received the 100,000th page view in its history.

On the grand scale of the Internet, that's as nothing, really. There are blogs that get 100,000 page views in a single day.

But for my little enterprise, it's a nice achievement and one for which I'm very grateful.

I started this blog back in December 2011, but I've twice taken hiatuses, so it has actually only been in operation a combined 21 months or so.

At the outset the blog was called "They Still Call Me Daddy," which was actually an extension of an even earlier blog I had (back in the mid-2000's) simply titled "They Call Me Daddy."

"They Still Call Me Daddy" existed from mid-December 2011 until July 2012, when I decided I didn't have enough time to maintain it and thought I would quit the blogging thing for good.

Which of course I didn't, because I resurrected it in February 2013 when I was unemployed and had some time on my hands. That run lasted until October 2013, by which time I had secured a job I still hold today as Director of Communications for Vitamix and found myself regularly working very long days. Once again, I figured I just didn't have the available hours required to blog.

That time I stayed away from it for 14 months, deciding to come back for a third go this past December 2014 with a new name and a new URL. I've been able to keep it going for six months only because I've kept things to a very reasonable three-posts-a-week writing schedule, which I hope is satisfying for everyone involved.

Anyway, yeah, 100,000 page views. I don't know how many of those views come from web-crawling "bots" and other non-human sources, but I do know there are lot of people who have become faithful readers, and for that I'm extremely appreciative.

Thank you so much for reading, for commenting (on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and directly to the blog), for encouraging, and for occasionally telling me why I'm wrong. You make the whole experience far more satisfying than it would be otherwise, so if you don't mind, we'll see if we can keep it going for many days/months/years to come.

Sound good? Cool.