Big Stupid Tommy: A Year by the Numbers.

Today is my one year anniversary for blogging.

The short history.

I started blogging last year, after my buddy Matt told me about the Xymphora blog. I'll still occasionally take a look over there. But to be so sure (and up in arms) about our government lying to us takes a dedication that I just don't have.

I'd pointed that site to the roommate, who told me what blogspot was.

I wasn't writing, at the time. And I like to think of myself of a writer. But I wasn't writing, and I figured if I had something like a blog that I could obsess over, I'd at least have reason to write something. So far, it's worked.

For the first six months or so, the only people who really knew about the blog were friends, and friends of friends. I didn't have many links. I didn't worry about it so much. I just used it as an outlet of sorts.

Then, in June, I joined the Rocky Top Brigade. We're Tennessee bloggers, and whatnot.

In July or so, I started getting a lot of hits from Cubs fans, and I ended up linking up with a lot of Cubs sites, Uncouth Sloth and Let's Play Two among them.

And I've just gone along, lollygagging my way since then.

Thanks to those of you who read regularly.

Now: the Numbers

To date, I've published 182,414 words on the blog. That's quite a bit more than my estimate from last night of 100,000. 182,414 words? That's a good sized novel.

Of those 182,414, I'd wager that around 12-15 thousand of the words are things I've quoted on the blog. Whether it's a joke I've gotten in the e-mail or something that I've found in a story that either interests or offends me. And part of that bigger count also includes little things like the date headers and the commenting system.

165 to 170 thousand of the words here, I think, popped out of my head.

Wow.

The breakdown (which I did last night, when I couldn't sleep, again):
__________________Words_____Sentences

November 2003........10,205................720
October 2003............26,414..............2132
September 2003.......24,596..............1922
August 2003.............23,861..............1777
July 2003..................16,366...............1437
June 2003.................14,084..............1150
May 2003..................11,641...............1012
April 2003...................9,783................932
March 2003...............11,780...............1114
February 2003...........10,169...............864
January 2003..............9,040................774
December 2002...........8,373...............714
November 2002...........6,102...............552

Totals........................182,414............15,105