music friday

Today is the 10th anniversary of this blog.

This is post #6237. Last I looked, I’d had 6,789 comments. I don’t get as many comments now … people usually comment on Facebook or Google+ when I cross-post.

Usually on these anniversary posts, I link to the very first post:

OK, here goes. Tried installing MovableType yesterday ... I'm not good enough.

My chair has broken rollers. As I type this, the stereo is playing "Prisoner of Love" by Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra featuring Lena Horne. Robin is in the livingroom reading the Sunday paper and steaming to help her sinuses. Jillian's coming over tonight for dinner and DVD.

I never did figure out MovableType, but I did end up on TypePad, which is MovableType for Dummies. The blog started on Blogger, which at the time had not yet been bought by Google.

The chair I am sitting in today does not have broken rollers. On the other hand, the seat is broken, as is the cover for the left armrest.

I didn’t include a video for the Teddy Wilson track … this blog predates YouTube by more than three years. As I type this, I’m listening to “Prisoner of Love”, this time by James Brown. Not on the stereo, though … that’s reserved mostly for TV and movies. I’m listening to a stream from Spotify.

It’s Thursday, not Sunday, so Robin isn’t reading the Sunday paper. We still get that paper … she reads it in the bedroom now. We don’t get the paper any other day of the week, though, at least, not hard copy. I read it online, she read it on her Kindle until a couple of weeks ago when she switched to a Nook. She still steams for her sinuses on occasion, but we sleep every night with a humidifier running, so it’s not as necessary.

Jillian still comes over for dinner. Doug comes, too … this blog started about 4 1/2 months before he asked her out for the first time. We usually eat out, rather than here, although sometimes we get take out. We hardly ever watch DVDs, but we watch Blu-rays and TV shows from the DVR.

Things haven’t changed much over the last ten years. Will I still be blogging on January 6, 2022?

Since it’s Music Friday, here are a couple of YouTube selections. First, Teddy Wilson doing “Prisoner of Love” featuring Lena Horne:

Now, James Brown with his own “Prisoner of Love”:

Comments

[Steve]

Hey, congratulations! Except for marriage, I've never stuck with anything for ten years.

[Steven Rubio]

I made it through ten years in the factory. Quit a month or two later, of course. But I lasted long enough to get my $160/month pension, if I can ever figure out where to get it.

[Phil]

Thanks for the Facebook Kael-link, Steven.

I think I've been maintaining my homepage for about 12-13 years, during which time I've written 1% of 1% of what you've archived here, so congratulations. You must, however, break the grip of nostalgia that inspires these commemorations.

[Steven Rubio]

I gave you a +1 on Google+, too.

Homepage ... I'm coming up on the 17th anniversary of my homepage. It was pretty worthless. I was made for blogging. I always wanted to write a column. Blogging gives the illusion of an audience, and I don't have to do what the editor tells me.

Nostalgia, well, that's a dirty word in these parts :-).