No, not that. Get your minds out of the gutter!
How long have you been visiting Voenix Rising? Are you an old-timer who’s been with me from the beginning (ca. 2005 or thereabouts)—including that horrific period when I lost my mind just after we moved to Denver and I wiped the previous ten years of posts—or are you fairly recent?
How did you find me initially?
Leave a comment. Inquiring minds want to know!
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A very very long time. I think I started following you, Joe.MyGod. & Towleroad about the same time around 2010, now only two of you remain.
About three, maybe four, years. My memory ain’t so good.
been visiting you site for the past 5 years or so. And enjoying every visit. Thank you
I have followed you for several years now—about two or three.
As with many of the blogs I read, I usually stumble upon them when someone mentions them. I take a look and decide whether it is something I’m interested in. If so, I add it to the folder on my upper toolbar and go down the list each day to see what’s new.
I love your site and the variety of things you post. I can tell you are a tech nerd. You and I grew up in a time when there was no internet or cell phones. I remember AOL and the dial-up sound. I always tell the story of a friend calling me to say his AOL bill was higher than his house payment. I asked him, “What the hell are you doing?”
Now, this was a guy who loved sex—all kinds of sex. It rarely interfered with his daily life, but he was always horny. He was the manager of a mid-sized hotel, and the encounters he would have were something else.
I remember getting my first computer while completing my undergraduate degree in Dallas, Texas. I had to go to the computer lab and pray there was a Windows computer available to type my term papers, not a Mac. I tried a Mac once for about an hour.
My friend down the street worked for Microsoft as a help desk person for businesses. I told him I needed to buy a computer, and after talking through my needs, he said, “Okay, let’s go.” We went down to Best Buy. I pushed the cart, and he loaded it up. We took everything home, and he set it all up. Then he ran home, grabbed all his Microsoft program disks, and installed them for me. It took forever. This was probably around 1992.
Now I have graduated from a desktop computer—one of those big machines you could set on the floor or on a desk with separate screens—to a simple laptop. The amount of storage we have now is amazing. I remember discs, both the big floppy ones and the smaller versions.
I remember my first cell phone was a Nokia flip phone. The only reason I bought one was because I was traveling. That was probably in the early 2000s. I could go on.
Love your blog. It has a great mix of men, food, current events, and other odds and ends. The only thing I don’t like—and I reached out to you about this before—is that I would love to see a ticker or number in the header of each post showing how many people have responded, so I could easily open it and read the comments. As it is now, I only open the comment section here and there to see if anyone has replied or to comment.
Thank you for your hard work in keeping us entertained.
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I don’t know how long I’ve been following your blog, maybe five years or so, but I find myself reloading multiple times each day in hopes of finding new posts.
I was doing a search for info on whether or not some quasi-famous person is gay and a link to your blog was one of the first that showed up. Don’t even remember the name of the person I looked for.
So often I’m reading one of your posts and think how you and I have similar life experiences. Whether it be events we remember or music we’ve loved, we have many common interests.
I’m still waiting for you to post a link to “Lovin’ is Really My Game” by Brainstorm. Please tell me the song brings back many fabulous memories of shaking your groove thing.
Thank (insert the name of your personal deity) I came across your blog and may you continue to share with us.