Ever watch those sitcoms and other TV shows that celebrate their 100th episode? No, okay so I do not watch stuff like that either. But if you did, you would know that I was hinting that this is my 100th blog. Yes a little over 1 year and the blog is 100 blogs old. I set out hoping to blog once or twice a week and I’ve been pretty consistent with that. So please allow me to pat myself on the back.

As a retrospective I looked at the blog and found some interesting things. The blog gets about 200 hits a day and about one in every four blogs gets commented on. Actually less than that because some posts have multiple comments, and some comments directly to me are not be made public, but it is an average representation of the posts. That number excludes spam and other annoying responses. There are 226 tags on a host of topics concerning science, education, medicine, research, writing, publishing and a food blog or two.

The blog’s posts are filed under 6 major categories with the majority being under, My Ambulance Education, Education, as well as Science and Research. The word count for the blog is about 34,000 words. Did I have that much to say? There was one guest blog, which was really a hybrid of someone else’s rant (their word) and my musings.

On a philosophical and even pastoral level, I often recommend to students and people I mentor to let “fun” factor into their career decisions. When I decided to write a blog I thought it might be a burden but wanted to give it a try and hoped it would be fun. Well it is fun and I’ll continue.

Maybe having fun when making career choices should be the topic of a future blog.