This kind of snuck up on me, but it’s time to celebrate this blog’s anniversary. It has now been four years since I started this up. I didn’t know what to think when I started it, how long I would be into it or what I wanted to “get” from doing this. I guess I can now answer that I’ll go at least four years.

I did have a few extended and unplanned quiet periods late last year and through part of this year. That was due to a new job and then a new house. The house is fantastic and everything is going great with it. The job is also well, though as I creep closer to 50 years old my body is telling me it might be time to do something besides drive a forklift for a living. There will be some kind of occupation and schedule change in the near future, but I can do all that at the company I work for now so it shouldn’t be too big of a deal. I don’t expect it to impact this site much, if at all.

As for the site – I had a big celebration of 1984’s music last year on its 40^th anniversary. That kind of sputtered out toward the end when I changed jobs but I got through the bulk of stuff. This year I haven’t had any grand designs on anything and I don’t have much in the pipeline. I am still planning a massive tribute to the music of 1991 on that 40^th anniversary, but that is still years down the road.

I do also have a plan for a very long review series, one that will take about a year with a post a week. That series likely won’t get rolling until later in 2026 or even ’27 but it is one massive thing at least on the edges of the radar.

Beyond that I have no big plans or grand designs right now. Posts will be albums, songs and the still-running series where I pick five songs from a year. I’ll have more on that come Friday, as I’ve decided to kick that series into gear and get it out of the way by year’s end.

One thing I will start doing in the near future is shifting focus on my album posts. I can pull out albums I’ve heard a bunch and write about those, that’s easy. I can also occasionally go after a record I don’t like just to say I don’t always cover stuff I like, which is fun but not something I want to do all the time.

Another avenue is to take on albums I haven’t heard much, if at all. I’ll start that up pretty soon and make it a semi-regular thing. These posts will be the “album of the week” posts, this isn’t a new series. But I figure it’d be worthwhile to spin some albums I don’t really know and give thoughts on them. I probably won’t do individual track grading when I do those. Hopefully I’ll take to this new idea and it will catch on as a new thing to do, kind of change things up a bit.

I have also been without an Iron Maiden series in awhile. I won’t revisit the singles series anytime soon as I am still very slowly collecting the ones I don’t have. I’ve landed a handful more but I’m entering territory where the stuff I still need is scarce and pricey. I might go ahead and start going through my bootlegs, though I’ll likely just do those here and there, not as a full-running series.

That is about all I have to say, thank you all who read, comment and all that. You will want to be around Wednesday because I have a whopper of a story I had never heard before and it is absolutely hilarious. See you then as I hit the road toward year five.