My 600th Post

Over the years I've seen various people celebrate some round number of posts and I always thought, "Oh yeah! There's a marker number on here somewhere." But I always forgot to keep up with it. So a few weeks ago when I noticed I was getting close to 600, I thought I'd mark the occasion (I hate that word! I have to look it up every time I use it.) I'm also getting close to my start date 4 years ago (August 30, 2005) so it seemed like an appropriate time.

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I used to read Jammie J's blog and leave 4 or 5 inch long comments. She kept telling me to start my own blog and after some thought and figuring out how to keep it anonymous, per My Sweetie, I started this. The name of the blog was obvious because the Rudyard Kipling poem "If" is my favorite poem in the world and really meant a lot to me after my car accident in 1980. "Geewits" was already my e-mail and sprang from "G WITS" which was my NTN gamer name for a long time.

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I've had such a fun time getting to know different people from all walks of life as well as being from all over the place. (Them I mean. Okay, sometimes I am also "all over the place.") I used to follow a blog from a distraught and rattled soldier in Iraq before the government shut him down as well as an old retired man that liked to talk about his garden in some small town near Houston. I've made and lost friends as well as getting to know people that I feel like I will know forever. You know who you are.

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On that note, I'd like to thank all the people that comment here on a regular basis. You make my days fun and when I talk to actual physical people I always call you my "blogger buddy." I love my blogger buddies. You know who you are. Thanks for all the comments and perspectives and support. I really do appreciate it.

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I'd also like to thank my silent readers. I'm not going to say, "Please comment!" because I realize you have your reasons. I read some blogs myself that I do not comment on. I get that. But here's a shout out to the readers from Presque Isle and Frenchville, Maine. To Butler, Pennsylvania, Fort Collins, CO and Prince Rupert, B.C. And here's a special Texas "Hey!" to my silent readers in Carrollton, Garland and Plano, Texas.

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Thanks everybody for making this fun for me! I hope I have 600 more.