Meme Dump, But First ...

Tis true, I have been at this blog thing for fifteen years now, though I never knew I have fifteen years worth of things to say, but it's true; I'm still here and people still read it and so, yeah, I'm Fifteen!

And here's that that first post:

Newbie

I'm new to this blog thing, but I do love to talk and I do have an opinion—hell, I have thousands of opinions—so I guess that's as good a place to start. 

Let's talk about.........Me!

I am a happily-partnered gay male, and I have been with the love of my life for the last eight years. We met online in an AOL chatroom—no, not THAT kind of chatroom—and became IM friends, and then email friends, and then phone friends and then friends across the country and then I went from California to Miami to meet him, and that was that.

A few months later I'd left California and settled in Miami—talk about culture shock! We stayed in Miami for about six years until Carlos—the aforementioned partner—accepted a job in Smallville, South Carolina, and we loaded up the truck and moved to....well, not Beverly Hills, but Smallville. A small town. A cute town. A town full of nice people who didn't seem at all peeved that the newest arrivals were a couple of mo's from Miami.

That's a start, I think. More to come.....I hope.

My how things have changed since then ... so let's take a moment and look at some facts about ISBL:

There are 390 followers, though thankfully not all of them comment because that would be insane to keep up with. I have written 10,952 posts and have read 76,476 comments—not counting the spam bots which get deleted right away and have been viewed 7,628,095.

But I thank all of them, all of you, for coming by to check on what I have to say, whether it's political, social, architectural, funny, rude, fashionable, or just takes about Carlos and me, and the our furry family.

Thanks for reading ... and now, a Meme Dump: