1 Year Old- So many memories, all blurred by beer

From its humble beginings at 8.12pm on Sunday the 11th September 2005 the "About the Booze blog has taken on a life of its own. Indeed, it seems to have developed its own ideology which means, and I quote "the unifying system of beliefs, attitudes, and values expressed in the superstructure of a culture. The body of thought and ideas that guides a society and perpetuates the status quo of the bourgeoisie". How quality is that definition and I think it applies to what's happened in many ways to us lot and the blog, sorry to get deep on you but its all quite fascinating really

I guess at the time I was bored (and more than likely slighty pissed) and fustrated at our seemingly ineffectual attempts to plan any sort of event or day out. Im happy to report the "About the Booze" website has done nothing to help with this at all and has at times made things worse. But hey, at least we get to see funny photo's while were at it

One of the other reasons for me (and where the name of the blog came from) was the fact that were all getting older, moving about more, and getting into serious relationships (for some of you at least). For anyone who dosen't know, "it used to be about the booze" is a play on "it used to be about the music" a reference of what the Beatles may, or may not, have said to John Lennon when he got with Yoko Ono. Thanks to our resident comedian Ric for that one. However, as I can't even play a triangle and I would guess the rest of you are just as musically gifted, we have to stick with what we know, which is booze.

Another point is that although we don't all post or comment, everyone looks at it. We get the usually suspects but its good to know that it looked at by us all. I think this is one of the main reason we've managed to last this long. And too be fiar its quite an acheivement. This is from a recent report:

"Perseus claimed that the average duration of the remaining 1.63 million abandoned blogs was 126 days, with some 132,000 blogs being abandoned after a year or more. The oldest abandoned blog surveyed had been maintained for 923 days. "

So the average blog is 126 days old. 365 aint bad
Also this

"Apparently the blog-hosting services have made it so easy to create a blog that many tire-kickers feel no commitment to continuing the blog they initiate. In fact, 1.09 million blogs were one-day wonders"

I wonder what the year would have been like without the blog? who knows it may even have been better but I for one have enjoyed reading it

Some statistics from our blog

365 Days old- Yey!!!!
6664 Visitors
335 Posts
First Comment- "u geek burly"
1983 unique hits- (not us)
11 Members
Alot of piss ups

Anyway this was quite along post but Im proud to be fair


Here's to us lot and "it used to be about the booze"

See you all around

Cheers

Burls