I was very busy today getting taxes done, and working, so I totally forgot that my own blog celebrates its seventh anniversary today! 🥳
The first post I wrote is here, but the first useful post was here. I had a pretty frustrating experience with the previous Japanese-culture / Buddhism blog,1 plus some unwanted attention at the time, so I was fairly certain I would never blog again, but then the urge to write started up and again here we are.
This blog is, in the end, one nerd’s interest in certain things, but I also strongly believe in the importance of sharing as much information as possible. Sometimes I get it wrong, sometimes the writing is kind of lousy, sometimes the posts are just boring, but after seven years I am glad I kept it up. I’ve learned a lot, and I hope you guys have too.
Thank you all for readership, support, comments, and so on.
Best wishes, and hopefully we’ll be around for another 7 years or more!
1 I’ve been blogging since 2006, but many of them are long gone, and I can barely remember the names anymore. 😅 Impermanence and all that.
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First off, congratulations! I occasionally get the urge to write. I use it as an excuse to collect a bunch of expensive fountain pens, fill half a journal, and then quit. I’ll stumble across it years later while cleaning a closet, cringe at everything I wrote, and destroy it with fire. Good job staying with it!
I’m intrigued. What happened?
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Thanks very much! It’s been a lot of fun.
As to your question, I can’t quite remember anymore, but I somehow got overly zealous commenters, plus a Japanese news site mistranslated something I wrote. Needless to say, I just wanted a fresh start at the time.
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