At this point I’ve made a tradition of celebrating the milestone every six months of Comparative Geeks! With the Geek Baby we’re now counting much shorter increments in time, like age in weeks, or hours between feedings (or hours we get to sleep!) so six more months suddenly feels like a really long time!
As part of this most recent six months, we had six weeks of guest posts, along with the Friday posts I wrote in advance. That was a lot of great content from some really great bloggers, so if you missed that, I collected them all here. We are still incredibly grateful for that, because without it, I would not be sitting here now saying that we’ve had a successful, continuing blog here on Comparative Geeks!
Seeing how much success we had, and how our life has changed for sure, we are continuing to operate with additional bloggers – now contributors in their own rights, and not just guest writers! And with that, there are now more Comparative Geeks!
Which means some of the basic conceit of the site – it being the two of us, a married couple able to talk through our post ideas on a daily basis – is just not the same anymore. There are more opinions. More fandoms. More experience to bring to the table. And that’s great!
It does mean that some high-level changes need to happen – like the First Time Here and About the Authors pages need an overhaul. There’s already an authors scroll in the sidebar on those pages – recent posts by all of the different Geeks!
I’m still slowly plugging away on a Geek 501 page, as well. In the mean time, I’ve also added a link to our whirlwind board game recommendations – our annual 12 Days of TableTop Day post. And the LitFlix… well, we’re working on it. It’s been hard to make it to movies this year, which makes us sad. It’s the number one getaway thing we have done without the Geek Baby – but we haven’t pulled off both going to see a movie together yet.
At some point we really need to recruit a babysitter!
I think we’re on a roll now, and I forsee we’ve definitely got the next six months in us. I fully expect that in January we’ll be talking about three years of Comparative Geeks! Where it goes from there? Time will tell. Like I said, I’m hoping I get a few more hours of sleep tonight… we’ll see about months of blogging!
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Happy 2 and a half, Comp Geeks!
The first time out together without the baby will feel monumental, but then it’ll be much easier after that—hope you guys get a chance to go see a film together soon!
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Thanks 😀
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Congrats on 2.5! As someone who routinely celebrates her half-birthday I fully appreciate the 6-month celebrations!
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Right? Totally a thing. 🙂
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Happy bloggity anniversary and here’s to many more!
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Now what tune can the song “Happy Bloggity Anniversary” be set to?…
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The Unbirthday song from Alice in Wonderland?
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Or maybe “Happy Death Day” by Alien Ant Farm… Just cram some syllables in 🙂
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Reblogged this on Sourcerer and commented:
Quite the milestone here.
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Congratulations! I like the idea of a half year celebrations. And the midyear mark is a great time to take stock and make blog changes. : )
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Indeed! Although we are already in the midst of changes 🙂 You had mentioned a willingness to write something… if you get any post ideas that you’d like to run here, let me know! One of our most active tags is Storytelling: https://comparativegeeks.wordpress.com/tag/storytelling/ 🙂
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I just found out today, another project I was working on got cancelled. I’ll have more time for a guest post now. I’ll take a look at this link, and drop you a message soon.
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Aww, sorry about the cancelled project 😦
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Many congratulations! I am frankly amazed you are able to keep on top of this while dealing with Geek Baby – I remember those times when it felt like there were endless days with no sleep. Hang in there! 🙂 And thanks for writing (and hosting) so many enjoyable posts.
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Why thank you 🙂 Apparently sleep and blogging are not necessary for each other…
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Maybe I should have had a blog back in those times! Instead, I found myself watching 4:00 a.m. TV, which is not pretty. 😉
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Hehehe we’ve done a lot of that too! And recordings of things like Ninja Warrior!
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Congrats on reaching the milestone! 🙂
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