Five years…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Five years ago I started spouting my drivel in this little corner of teh Intarwebz…


I did it mainly to kill time when I was on the road, and sitting in various airports around the world, and I was tired of what was going on with the various gun forums I was on (flame wars, BS responses to comments, and lots of wanna-be’s that didn’t have a clue).


Here’s my first attempt…


I’m new to this whole arena, but thought I’d give it a try. I guess I fall in the “silent majority” as we have been deemed, I’ve never sought publicity, sued anyone for spilling my coffee, sure as hell ain’t a movie star; well, you get the drift…

I’m mid-50’s have a decent job, two decent kids trying hard to make their own way in the world today, and a lot of frustration with what is happening to the US of A. Being from the South, I hunt, fish, and shoot guns; so that immediately makes me one of those “rabid rednecks” to quote some out there. I did have a pickup, but it’s hard to park it where I work, so I drive a Pontiac… sure do miss the truck though… sigh…

As a retired military type, it really hurts to see the crap we are putting the folks in service through today. I lived through that in Vietnam, and I take the time to thank every Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine for their service when I get the chance. Most of the kids (I’m Southern so I can say that) are doing the best they can with what they have. They believe in the job they and others are doing in the Sandbox, and are pretty upset by the media coverage they get. 

Anyway, I’m going to try this for a while and see what happens… thanks for reading and commenting…

Old NFO


Not much has changed, I’m older, now back to driving an SUV; but  everything else is pretty much the same…


I’ve made a lot of friends both through this little blog, and met a great group of people in meat space too!


And I’ve had a blast (literally in some cases) shooting with many of y’all, and hope to meet more of you in the real world!


1039 posts with this one, 199 loyal readers- Thanks to each and every one of you! About 400,000 visits (splitting the Sitemeter stats); and the most popular post was the one I did on CFL bulbs… 


Go Figure…


And linking DOES work!  Thanks to Lawdog, Murph, Brigid, Uncle, Tam, Peter, Jay G, Paw and all those others who link to me.


Thanks again for putting up with me and reading and commenting, it IS appreciated!

Comments

Five years… — 53 Comments

  1. Congrats! And I’m happy to be someone linking to you (from North and from the Gun Blog Black List).

  5. Happy Bloggiversary!

    I’m glad you started and kept with it, as it’s been great to know you, both online and offline.

    Hope the next five are even better for you!

  9. Holy smokes, congrats!!!

    You’re definitely one of the good ones, NFO, and someone I’m proud to call friend.

    I just hope I don’t ever get on your bad side in a practical joke contest… 😉

  12. Congrats! It’s been my pleasure to get to “know” you, as well as anyone can via the web. And thank you for YOUR service, sir.

  13. heck, i’m just glad i got to meet you via the blogosphere. thanks for being here. 🙂

  15. Congratulations Old NFO, I am glad to know your acquaintance and I regularly check your blog to see what you are talking about. I remember the first post from your blog when I “found” it by accident. it was the muslim fliers on the airplane and they looked like they were scouting it out. I remembered that and later on when I started blogging you were one of the first ones on my blogroll.

    Keep on blogging.

    Bob

  16. Wow! Five years! Congratulations, NFO. You were one of the first I added to my blogroll way back then. 🙂

  19. Congratulations NFO. May it be many years more before you stop blogging and we must wish you, “Fair winds and following seas”.
    As I remarked to Brigid after the Indy Blogmeet, you are one of the few I’ve met who knows what a “No- alone Zone” means. And what it means to be a “Fling wing flyer”

  21. Great postings. Please keep it up.
    Love those P3s. I was at this show


    and worked across from the runways
    Always admired the crews that worked these missions
    Q

  23. Five years! It doesn’t seem that long..
    Oh, yeah. I’ve only been reading you for a year or so.
    As you keep supplying me with reading entertainment, I’ll be here to read it.

  24. Congrats!

    Happy Blogiversary!

    So glad you started blogging otherwise we wouldn’t have met 🙂

    Keep up the good work!!!

  26. That’s incredible. Congrats and thanks for taking the time to keep up and comment. I know it means a lot to those new bloggers (I think I still am one).

  29. I like the way you write and the topics you write about.
    From the comments on the other blogs I read, you are also a good and honorable man.
    Maybe at a GBR (this year?) we will meet and share a Thai dinner and a Guinness (for strength).

  32. Outstanding!

    A very Happy Blogiversary and if I might say, many, many more in the future. It’s been a true pleasure reading your blog.

  36. Much as it goes against this retired bubblehead’s grain to be nice to an ASW brownshoe, I wish you well on your blogiversary and look forward to your future musings.
    MichigammeDave

  37. Happy Blogiversary, Shipmate!

    You know, it doesn’t look a day over 2!

    Now if Google would only quit “Fixin” what ain’t Broke,” you might have many more years to go!

  49. Jim – ‘High Five’ congrats on your five prolific ‘Nobody Asked Me…’ years. 5-years = 1824-days. 1039-posts over 1824-days = ~4-posts per week — An impressive blog post count. I have had my ‘Green Picnic Table’ blogspot web presence since July 2006, and only have managed to rack up a paltry 5–posts over 70-months. — Keep ’Em Comin’!

  50. Does this mean you’re not in your mid fifties anymore?
    I think I started reading you a couple years ago, and haven’t stopped.
    Kinda fun to read over the comments bacause I recognise quite a few.

  51. Thanks all, I truly appreciate your support and I thank each of you for your comments! It IS appreciated, and I’ve truly enjoyed meeting many of you in meatspace, and hope I will get to meet and shoot with more of you in the future! If I can succeed at this, anyone can! 🙂