I get periodic emails from Google Analytics with information about how the Chappell Family Website is doing in terms of how many visitors have visited which pages, how long they stuck around, whether they visited another page, and much more. These are matters of interest to “webmasters” or “web developers” as they assist them with their SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategies to get more visitors (traffic), especially for websites that have commercial objectives (getting money). I got one of those reports recently and, interesting as it was in regard to such matters, I was most struck by a reference to a page entitled The Blog is Open. At first, I wasn’t sure there was such a page. So, I clicked the link and there it was, posted March 30, 2004, which is several months before I created the chappells.us domain on November 5, 2004. As I recall, the website and blog were originally hosted as a subdomain of my business site, jchap.com. In any event, 2004 was twenty-two years ago! I was a mere 53 years of age back then. That’s young! It’s only about 3 years older than my son is now. Good God A’mighty, how time has flown by, gone up in smoke, been flushed down the… Actually, I’m not sure getting flushed is an aphorism I want to use here. Since 2004, two grandchildren have been born and grown to teenagers, one nigh onto 18 and the other close behind. Pondering all this emphasizes that many more years lie behind me than remain in front of me. Am I making the best use, or even a good use, of my remaining time writing blog posts nobody will ever read? Only time will tell, as I’ll be dead and gone, as will the website and its blog.
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22 Years
June 22, 2026
Life, Memory Lane, Wisdom
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John Chappell
I get periodic emails from Google Analytics with information about how the Chappell Family Website is doing in terms of how many visitors have visited which pages, how long they stuck around, whether they visited another page, and much more. These are matters of interest to “webmasters” or “web developers” as they assist them with their SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategies to get more visitors (traffic), especially for websites that have commercial objectives (getting money). I got one of those reports recently and, interesting as it was in regard to such matters, I was most struck by a reference to a page entitled The Blog is Open. At first, I wasn’t sure there was such a page. So, I clicked the link and there it was, posted March 30, 2004, which is several months before I created the chappells.us domain on November 5, 2004. As I recall, the website and blog were originally hosted as a subdomain of my business site, jchap.com. In any event, 2004 was twenty-two years ago! I was a mere 53 years of age back then. That’s young! It’s only about 3 years older than my son is now. Good God A’mighty, how time has flown by, gone up in smoke, been flushed down the… Actually, I’m not sure getting flushed is an aphorism I want to use here. Since 2004, two grandchildren have been born and grown to teenagers, one nigh onto 18 and the other close behind. Pondering all this emphasizes that many more years lie behind me than remain in front of me. Am I making the best use, or even a good use, of my remaining time writing blog posts nobody will ever read? Only time will tell, as I’ll be dead and gone, as will the website and its blog.
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