It has been five years since that fateful day when a certain VafeR said, “You know this goofy site you created in FrontPage? You should make it into a blog. But not any blog – a BLOGgh.”
I tossed around a few ideas of how to celebrate. I could pass on a funny link from J about classic movies being remade by Zac Effron, show you fan films of Star Wars and Firefly (thanks, Devin), or give a pop quiz about which Harrison Ford character would win in a street fight (oh, don’t fret. We’ll see how Rick Deckard does soon enough).
I even tried recording a video blog (remember when people tried to call them vlogs? I’m so glad we put a stop to that. Now if we could just remove the word ‘tweet’ from the Internet, it would be so double rainbow.). The video web log started out okay until I realized I have a beard made for radio.
Then I tucked my oldest in and reflected about the past five years (cue ‘Sunrise, Sunset’). When I first started posting stuff online, it was to get extra practice for Masters degree homework. I still remember feeding her in her high chair while I coded HTML, wrote an essay, and had A New Hope playing in a window for her.
Tonight she told me that if she got scared, she would read a book on courage by Frank Peretti and that she would read a book on helping others in the morning so that she would start the day out right and build up the Body of Christ. She reads her sister’s Bible to her because “it’s the only important thing.”
So, with that, I say thank you for reading the bloggh for five years and one day I hope to be as cool as my daughters.
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