So July 11th will be one complete year of blogging for me. I haven’t missed a week, even though my wife and I became parents for the second time in late March, we spent two weeks in Wyoming with little to no internet access, and among many other plausible excuses I got the flu for the first time in my life a month ago. June in Minnesota is NOT supposed to be flu season (I’m just finally feeling back to 100%). I’m very pleased that, in addition to not missing a week, I also hit two other major goals I’d set for my first year: breaking the arbitrary 1,000/visits a week threshold (top week now sits at 1,357) and exceeding 100 posts in the first year (this is post 103). I’ll probably write a short post about goals and tracking in October, since I didn’t start using Google Analytics until October.

Anyways this is Fourth of July weekend and it’s about time I spent a three day weekend actually treating it like a weekend. In honor of one year of blogging, this week’s Sunday post will thus be a short and reflective post, as is already obvious. (If you haven’t noticed, Sunday is my regular big post day. Other days are bonus posts). But I don’t want to leave my readership empty-handed, with nothing ArchiCAD related to read or learn about. So watch these awesome screencasts by Link Ellis. There are twelve of them as of today. I’ve praised Link before. These screencasts are more reasons why.

Also if you’re new(er) to the blog, there’s a full year’s worth of old posts to catch up on. This week would be a good time to sift through the archives! Now on to relaxing and Year 2.