O.T.: 2007, My 22nd Year of Blogging

There are only minutes to spare before the ball drops in New York City this New Year's Eve. If you read my blog this time last year, you'll know I related some personal memories of New Years Eves past. Rather than rehash that, I'd like to take a look back at the blogs I've brought you in 2006.

It's been a heck of a year. I had my my desk here at AccuWeather (and the J-CAM!) moved twice, and at home my life changed greatly when I bought a New House [JessePedia], New Dog [JessePedia] and New Car [JessePedia]. I blogged hundreds of major weather stories; I took a day off to recount my memories of the beach, and I found out why Christmases are White.

All in all, in 2006 I brought you 981 blog entries on 354 days, containing 4,838 images.

This was my first full year of blogging, although as I pointed out on my one-year anniversary, my first "blog" was in 1995. But if you look back beyond the Internet era, I was always destined to be a blogger.

I recently found this old photo of me writing a "newspaper" at my grandmother's house, probably in 1987.

"SNOW UN-PREDICTED; FOILED AGAIN!"

The headline was remorse of a busted forecast, after renigging on my prediction of an April snowstorm, snow started to fall. (I have the actual newspapers packed away somewhere, I'll have to scan this one in sometime).

These "newspapers" were "reporters" accounts (i.e. mine) of local events at our house, especially weather events, and contained many of the common elements of newspapers back then (which, of course before the online era, was all I had to go on), such as photos, bylines, sections, etc. I furiously wrote these accounts, sometimes with several editions per day, between 1985 and 1991. Stuck in the offline world, I had no one to share them with except my parents (who I routinely forced to read the latest copy). For a short while, I even produced them on the computer (a Commodore 64).

So don't think, even for a minute, that I'm going to quit blogging in 2007.