{"id":4720,"date":"2011-01-01T19:37:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T19:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4720"},"modified":"2011-01-01T20:43:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T20:43:56","slug":"happy-23-happy-newt-year-and-happy-blogiversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4720","title":{"rendered":"Happy  23!!!  Happy Newt Year!!!!&#8230; And Happy Blogiversary # 6!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Happy%20%2023%21%21%21%20%20Happy%20Newt%20Year%21%21%21%21...%20And%20Happy%20Blogiversary%20%23%206%21%21%21%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>For all my Geek Friends &#8211; Happy 010111!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogout.justout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/newt.jpg\" title=\"newt\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sonicfrog.net is 6 years old tomorrow! This was <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/sonicfrog-blog.html\">my very first post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello All: <\/p>\n<p>WOW!!! I can&#8217;t believe I am a netizen of the blogosphere. I just set this blog up tonight and, though its not too horribly late, I am tired from last nights New Years Eve gig and after hours social gathering. Any way this blog will start out as a forum for my scattered and misguided thoughts on anything that crosses my mind and causes a neuron or two to misfire. It will be heavy on music, with some news, politics, and a touch of science thrown in to make it interesting. All I have to say at the moment is &#8220;God, what am I getting myself into this time????&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>??? Is the spell checccccer working on this thing???? Seems not. I&#8217;ll fix it tomorrow. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep. That&#8217;s how it all started! It&#8217;s come a long way. Started on Googles Blogspot and now use a Word Press format. Along the way, I have been forced to learn a little HTML code. From here to there, I&#8217;ve been through a bazillion operating systems &#8211; XP, Windows 7, Debian, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Red Hat, Mandrake (like the old name better), Suse, Demudi, Mint, Peppermint, GEOS, 64 Studio, and so many more I couldn&#8217;t list them because&#8230; well&#8230; I can&#8217;t remember them all! <\/p>\n<p>I have in the past done a retrospective, linking to some of my favorite posts. But I got to thinking, if I were visiting someone else&#8217;s blog, that is something that I wouldn&#8217;t take the time to read, so why should I expect someone to take the time to read mine. I may yet come back and re-post a few of my favorites, but I leave that option open. My blog did get a few more links from major blogs this last year &#8211; Instapundit, Ann Althouse, my friends at Gay Patriot, and even one from Andrew Sullivan. How&#8217;s that for diversity!<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s all in the past. What about the future? <\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m not big on New Years Resolutions, but, that said,  I do have a list of things in mind that I want to concentrate on more this year. <\/p>\n<p>First and most important goal this year is increasing my income. It&#8217;s been pretty sparse since I finished getting my teaching credentials. The education system in California is in a budgetary mess, and, like last year, it doesn&#8217;t look like there will be much hiring this year. I&#8217;m going to broaden my job search outside the education field. Seeing that my finances are not up to snuff, I have no choice. Gotta do what I gotta do.<\/p>\n<p>I have been immersing myself in the study of <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4694\">market system dynamics during economic downturns<\/a>, and plan on continuing to increase my understanding of <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?cat=7\">economics<\/a> in general.<\/p>\n<p>I need to spend more time with <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=739\">Miss Bird<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already started to go to the gym more&#8230; Continue with that.<\/p>\n<p>Next is to increase the amount of time I spend on music stuff, especially recording. Last year was a good year musically. I moved beyond being just a bass player and expanded my musical repertoire &#8211; I can now play some mandolin, started to learn to play drums (Chris, I really need a new bass drum head), though I still have a long way to go I greatly increased my abilities on guitar, and as a result, I was able to performed on stage <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4606\">as a solo artist<\/a> for the first time. I&#8217;m still pretty jazzed about that. Though I did start to record some of the songs I&#8217;ve written since I was thirteen, I haven&#8217;t spent nearly as much time on that project as I should&#8230;. Which ties into the next item. <\/p>\n<p>I do enjoy my time surfing the web, posting stuff on my blog and on Facebook, and all that. However, the more time I spend on that, the less time I have to spend on recording, studying economics, and other things, such as finally learning a computer language  (a classic opportunity cost dilemma). So, this year will see me spending less time on Facebook. The blog will continue to get attention. Not only is it a forum for my thoughts and rants, it also is an excellent tool used to improve and hone my writing skills. Plus, it provides an excellent outlet for my <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4718\">goofy urges<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. Everyone have a Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>PS. I just realized I owe the blogosphere an album review&#8230; It&#8217;s coming in short order, I promise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Happy%20%2023%21%21%21%20%20Happy%20Newt%20Year%21%21%21%21...%20And%20Happy%20Blogiversary%20%23%206%21%21%21%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>For all my Geek Friends &#8211; Happy 010111! Sonicfrog.net is 6 years old tomorrow! This was my very first post: Hello All: WOW!!! I can&#8217;t believe I am a netizen of the blogosphere. I just set this blog up tonight and, though its not too horribly late, I am tired from last nights New Years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4720"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4726,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions\/4726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}