Mr Al Young Dot Com

This blog is approaching a milestone.  The next post will be number 200.  I started this blog in February of 2007 not knowing if it is something I would continue with.  Despite infrequent posting the blog continues to exist.  It took over 2 years to reach the magic 200 post which means I have not always had time or enough thoughts to share regularly.  Despite that I have a small but dedicated group of readers who have encouraged me to keep blogging and paid me some nice compliments so I am encouraged to keep blogging knowing a few people are reading.

The blog has evolved over the last 200 posts.  In the beginning I shared my thoughts on investments and business, but soon ran out of things to talk about.  So I started sharing more random topics such as family stories and pictures.  Some of you enjoyed that.  Sometimes I ranted about something that was bothering me.  When you have a blog you can use that as an outlet to vent.  Other times I just talked about what I had for dinner.  Some of you enjoyed that, but this blog was never meant to be all things to all people.  Rather it was just a creative outlet for me since I can’t sing, draw or dance.  I think I can write a little and over the years hopefully my writing skills have improved and a few people are entertained.

Thanks for continuing to follow my rather random blog and I appreciate your kind comments.  Not only has my blog evolved the world of blogging has also evolved.  Blogs such as mine are still random thoughts by random people, but blogging has becoming an acceptable media outlet.  Often breaking news are delivered by blogs or on Twitter just as often as they are on the television news or newspaper.  There has never been any breaking news on this blog or even anything that interesting.  However for my 200th post I will be sharing some exciting news, or an announcement I guess to commenerate this blogging milestone.  I will be making post #200 this Friday June 5th.  See if you can guess what my announcement will be.  I may give out a prize to be determined to whoever can guess correctly.  Of course I may disqualify any guesses if I deem it unfair because well its my blog.  Stay tuned for post #200.