QotD: Happy Voxiversary! (and a Mash-up, too)

Today is Vox's first anniversary since the official launch.  What's the best experience you've had on Vox in the past year?

Wellll, I think I'd have to rank the invite Kymberlie sent me to join the Vox Beta (called "Not Comet" back then). My first post was on March 10th, 2006. A bit before the official launch. My first post was a little less enthusiastic than I am now:

I believe this makes my fourth blog. No, fifth? ...OK, hey, seven is a lucky number. I can go with that.

Once I warmed to the idea that Vox was trying to be more than just another hosted blog site, I had a different take:

... blogging hasn't been fun for me for a long, long time. Maybe because the Blog world exploded. Maybe because folks I liked to read stopped blogging. ...Whatever the case, having had a blog for 6+ years you see a lot of change.

I think this is what is so interesting to me about (Vox). For the first time in I don't know how long, I am starting to have fun again. Not as much fun (yet) as "back in tha day" but I can sense it happening.

Right now, it makes me think of this community as the "Little Rascals" ... it is like being a member of "Our Gang" again. I am probably not communicating this very well. I am not sure if this even makes sense to anyone but me.

But for now, I am glad to be in the Clubhouse again. Right Spanky?

Well, since then, I've transformed my "other blog" and made Vox my home.

... my original blog has become my "Other Blog." ... it isn't really any fun there. Not anymore.

No, the fun is to be had here at Vox. Here there is community, and connection.

At my "Other Blog" all that faded away. Maybe I faded away. But I really dig it here at Vox, and I will be here for the long haul.

So, to Vox I say thank you for being born, and for bringing the "joy" back to blogging.

Happy Birthday, erm, Anniversary, uh, Voxiversary!

Without you, TheGoodLife with be just so-so!

And with that spirit, I post a totally unrelated Mash-up!

DJ John - Bootie 3 Year Party set opener

DJ John

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This fun mix is via DJ John. It says it is a "test" so I am not sure if he ever finished it, but I really like what he's done. Again, nothing to do with the Voxiversary, but fun nonetheless!