I missed the actual two year anniversary on the 14th, but this is close enough for government work.
Not too much has changed since
last year's review.
I still don't have an AR (but I do have
two lowers!) or an M&P9. I've not been shooting in a long time.
I rarely even turn on the ham radios - partly because my
KG-UVD1P that I was using in the car has died. Anyone know anything about a good, cheap Chinese mobile radio I could buy? (HA!) I did spend a little time with
WSPR, but would like to invest some more. I haven't even cracked the book for the Extra Class exam.
I ran a marathon this year. I'm just crazy enough to think about doing another one. The bad news is I would need to start training
now for an April race. Ugh.
I'm also getting a lot more involved at church. One week, between services, meetings, and fellowship, we were there four days out of the week.
Between family, exercising, church, work, and blogging; my days tend to be pretty full.
The radio posts are still the most popular, but that doesn't stop me from posting about anything I find interesting or funny. The blog has had 539,362 page views since I started it - around 112,000 in 2011 and 427,000 in 2012. I posted less in 2012 - 727 vs 856 in 2011 for a total of 1,583.
SaysUncle is still the single largest referring URL thanks to a story about
ninjas (of all things!). Makes me think I should resell radios under
a zombie ninja brand.
The most popular post (15,555 views) is about the software for the
Baofeng UV-3R Software. Given the endless discussion on the Yahoo groups about how to get the software to work with your Baofeng/Wouxun KG-whatever or UV-xxx, this really isn't a surprise. I think almost all of this traffic is driven via searches.
Given so much of my traffic is via search, the biggest surprise for me this year has been the jump in my RSS subscribers. Last time I checked, I think there were about 8. I could even account for half of those - me, my wife, probably
Linoge, etc. I looked and found I have 100 subscribers - wow! I was and am floored. Thanks so much for reading my ramblings. If any of my RSS subscribers would do me a favor, please leave a comment on this post - anonymous is fine. I'm just curious as to how many people actually follow and would read a long post like this one.
Goals for next year... I need to build at least one of the lowers in to an actual rifle. I want to get my Extra Class license. I'd like to run a sub 20 minute 5k.
I will close the same way as I did last year...
Thanks for reading!