Half A Thousand

Today marks a milestone of sorts for The Doc File, as I noticed that I have now amassed 500 blog posts. I started this blog back in the summer of 2006, right before I got married and got into “real” youth ministry (i.e., youth ministry other than a summer internship). A lot has changed since then!

Looking back on some old posts, it is interesting how similar some things are and how much others have changed:

• I write more about ministry and theology than I used to, and less about sports and other things. Perhaps this is to be expected: when I first started the blog, I didn’t intend to be a long-term minister, and I wasn’t a theology grad student.
• I continue to write long, convoluted sentences which sometimes contain excessive commas and clauses.
• I think I come across as a little more humble and a little less arrogant than I used to. I sure hope so.
• My posts now aren’t as funny as they used to be. That’s too bad—I promise that I am still funny in person!

This blog has been a blessing to my life over the last (almost) seven years, and I want to thank all of those who read and comment. I hope it has been, in some small way, a blessing to you as well. Looking forward to the next 500 posts!

A Milestone…Of Sorts

Yesterday, The Doc File rolled over 50,000 page views. That seems like a nice thing, but since the statistics aren’t all that reliable, it’s hard to take much meaning from it:

• The Doc File has existed since the summer of 2006, and these statistics only go back to May 2008.
• Google Stats are not considered to be incredibly accurate.
• Of the 50,000 page views, roughly 30,000 of them have come this year alone.
• Google reports no stats to me from September 2008-August 2009 or September 2010-August 2011, so in addition to the nearly two years at the beginning of The Doc File’s run where I have no stats, there are two additional years in the middle where I have no stats.

So, if all of this is largely meaningless, why even mention it? It’s a good question, and I guess the only answer is that I’m one of those guys who gets excited by milestone numbers on the odometer of my car.