Rant #1,400: 1-4-0-0

Today, the Ranting and Raving Blog hits its 1,400th post.

That is kind of fudging it, it is more like over 1,400, because a couple of early posts did not have numbers attached to them.

There was also a "numerical dysfunction," made by me, which threw off the numbering system for awhile.

But for all intents and purposes, this Rant that you are reading is the 1,400th that has been posted here since I started this blog in June 2009.

I always have a lot to say on the matters at hand, or at least on the matters that interest me, and I have now said these things 1,400 times.

That is a lot of topics, a lot of discussions, and it all equals out to a lot of time I have expended on this blog.

Actually, a lot of time expended on this and the original Ranting and Raving Blog, which, unfortunately, got eaten up by a virus in December and is no longer fully accessible.

That incident really threw me for a loop, and I tried to rectify it with Google, but to no avail.

They don't care about it, and since the virus was not generated by them or their software, they haven't offered the least bit of help to me.

That type of insolence and attitude kind of upset me, so I knew I had to do something, and I certainly was not going to roll over to the hackers.

That is why this second version of the blog started.

I am trying to get all the Classic Rants in here, because at the point in time that I am all caught up--yes, I know, it is going to take a long while--I plan on fully shutting down the original blog, so no one stumbles upon it. It is hacked, and I don't want anybody to get any residual effects from visiting that site.

I can access the Rants, but I cannot access the subscribers' list, and we had a neat group of 25 or so people who subscribed to the site.

To fill in these people about the virus, I did post a message on there about the new site, but if you cannot fully access the site, then you probably won't see it.

They probably think the site has been hacked, and I just gave it all up.

As you can see, nothing can be further from the truth.

I just got up, brushed myself off, and started this new site, continuing the old style of talking about everything and anything I want to, offering my opinions on things, and basically just writing for pleasure.

So if you are a fan of the site--with our number of hits and my ability to know where the hits are coming from--I would say that we probably have several people looking at the site each and every day. They are basically coming from North America, from the U.S., and that is fine. I know on the other site, we were getting people from around the world, but just let's say that I am working on that as we speak.

So, as the 1,400th post comes to an end and we work toward 1,500 posts, I just want to say "thank you" for sticking with the site through thick and thin.

I know it is kind of "pollyanna-ish," but if I can reach just one person, I feel that I have accomplished my goal.

So thanks for coming here, please come back, and relax and enjoy yourself!

Let's all have fun!