Digital Camel 1000

Tom, you mentioned doing something special for the 1000th post and I'm still racking my brain. I suggested whoever hits it should do it. You suggested it should be me because, "It's your's after all". I didn't come up with a thousand posts. gel paco, tadpole, social insect, jefe, The Bishops, yourself, and I have come up with the bulk of them together. Our resident guest blogger Joe Budzinski has too.

This is a unique space. The circumstances surrounding it's genesis have long since fallen by the wayside but the driving force behind it hasn't changed, for me. My reasons, my intentions, have not yet run their course, and hopefully never will. I hope that what drove me to sit down and write something, anything, or to share a picture or two, a song, a video, will continue to drive me for the rest of here to come. In the meantime I hope that each contributor continues to find their way here in order to share a little bit of whatever drives them to express their creativity. It's easy here. It's electronic. It takes a minute of your time. We're amongst the best friends I know I've ever had. While my own contribution has it's unique driving desires behind it, I probably would have quit blogging long ago if I didn't have someone to share it with and someone who would participate in sharing it too. I feel lucky to have this stream of consciousness; inconscienable to anyone else but us (and likely even between us, at times). This space goes in a hundred different directions at once (something that I really like about it). The strangest thing, for me, are the subtlest ways in which it connects me to you guys when the things like phone calls and emails and visits go by the wayside or become too expensive.

I think I feel like we got off to an awkward start a thousand posts ago. I think we are creating an interesting piece of side-history in our friendships. Nothing will ever replace real human social interaction in person, never. This is just some weird, wonderful, byproduct of what we already truly have in our relationships with each other. We shape it, we mold it, we mess around with it, and we create it together. And we're starting to get really good at it, from my view. What it means to have it, I think we'll see much, much later. Keep up the good work, gentlemen.