cake, candles & balloons, as Manhattan Loft Guy is 5 today

personally, I will have a beer (or 2) (later)
I can’t be the only one parent who has consistently been surprised when a child reaches another birthday, which was as true for me with a 28-year-old as it was when I had a 4-year-old, and a 13-year-old …. Today my blog, my little guy, my Manhattan Loft Guy, is five years old. Makes me feel old!

how would Lorne Green count?
Five years is a long time in the blogosphere. The Miller’s copyright dates start in 2005, so even he is not much older than MLG. Ditto Brownstowner. Curbed, of course, is ancient, having started way back in 2004; but they pay people to do stuff over there 😉  If there is a local Manhattan real estate blog by an individual older than Noah’s Urban Digs (August 2005), I don’t know it.

no need to fret
… about the ideal gift for a 5 year anniversary, but linkage is always appreciated!

careful readers know
Manhattan Loft Guy being among the lowest-of-low-tech things on the inter-tubes, I have never been much into metrics or analytics, and have never surveyed the readership so I have no idea how many readers have been reading for as long as a year, let alone many years. But if you have been reading for two weeks, this anniversary will not be a surprise. In my March 8, what is the opposite of Soho?, there was a natural call to mention a blog post that was both pertinent to that post and ancient … so ancient, in fact, that it was my very first post, on March 19, 2006.

I don’t expect any one to remember this, but my 3rd birthday post is fun, revealing (again) that I am a big Jabberwocky fan: Mar. 19, 2009, milestone alert / Manhattan Loft Guy is 3. If I read that post right, that was Manhattan Loft Guy Post #874; this will be #1,388. even with that unfortunate 4-month hiatus that intervened, that’s 514 posts in the last two years. Remove those four months, and the average is about 26 posts per month.

bigger and better things ahead
I have always had ideas about changing (improving?) Manhattan Loft Guy, and occasionally even make plans to do so. Some of that will actually come about soon. Stay tuned and, as always, thanks for stopping by!

© Sandy Mattingly 2011