A Closet of Curiosities is Two Years Old

Today is this blog's second birthday. The date of the first post does say that the first post is on March 17, 2007, but that's when I decided to continue on the new version of Blogger with the added bells and whistles. Actually, the date of the first post is on May 26, 2006. Also, this blog had its first mention on Totally Fuzzy (that's the old Totally Fuzzy site).

When I took over posting on this blog, I wasn't sure how long I was going to continue much less make it to two years on this blog. I didn't realize the time and effort put into the work of maintaining this blog. Previously, I was just hovering in the background giving suggestions on what stuff to post. Occasionally, I uploaded a few recordings, but I didn't have to do much work until I was called upon to run the blog. Several months after I was given the keys, I made the decision to start a new blog on the new Blogger's template where I transferred posts or actually duplicated posts from the blog on the old Blogger template. That was a lot of work and I was exhausted to the point that I needed to take a break from this blog. The break was meant to be two or three weeks and it turned into a three month hiatus. During the hiatus, I wasn't sure if I was ever going to continue doing this blog. I felt like quitting. I was tired of this endeavor. Then to make a long story brief, a few things happened and somehow I regained the energy and enthusiasm to come back and continue this blog. It also helped that a few great and rare recordings fell into my hands.

For a few years, I've been leeching from other websites and blogs where I added some hard-to-find goodies to my hard drive. Then one day in May 2006, I came up with the suggestion to a friend to start a website or blog to contribute music and hopefully give back. My friend, muse1453, came up with everything for the blog including the name of the blog and most of the content to post. Inspired by other great blogs such as Regnyouth, Chocoreve, 8 Days In April, and Curved Air, we launched this blog. We weren't really sure of the direction that this blog would go. The only direction for this blog was to post whatever we liked regardless of genre or even quality. We wanted to have fun doing this. I was enjoying it and muse1453 did about all of the work. We had ideas (or rather muse1453 had most of the ideas of what to do with A Closet of Curiosities as stated in the first post). However, not all of the ideas mentioned in the first post were realized. By the way, three of the four mentioned blogs sadly no longer exist.

Real life came to be more prominent for muse1453 and he was unable to continue posting as there was no time available. muse1453 went off to school and had to devote all of his time to schoolwork and various other extracurricular activities. I have kept very little contact with muse1453, but he is doing fine. Meanwhile, I equated doing this blog and my other blogs with having a life. And so it goes.

During fall of last year, someone asked me if he could contribute some stuff to this blog. Of course, I said yes to H. C. Earwicker after looking at his offerings. H. C. wrote a comment that explains it well:

I only joined the Closet autumn last year, but I've been rummaging through the blogworld for while by then, just leeching & not often commenting (yuck ;-).
Then I decided to give the community something back for all the wonderous things it had given me to hear, by posting things from my own music archives. Since my time is limited, I decided to ask at one of my favorite blogs if I could "join" for occasional posting.
So I contacted Grey & asked, and he said "yes", which was very nice of him, and the following time proved that I might have had a hard time finding a blog where my contributions would fit better.
This may not be one of those power-blogs with 10 posts per day, but it's a darn fine one, and I hope it'll go on like this for a long long while.

Then at the end of last year, another person, Telvin Bartruss, offered to contribute to this blog and he started at the beginning of this year.

I would like to thank my contributors, H.C. Earwicker and Telvin Bartruss for sharing some fantastic stuff. I am grateful to have their contributions on my blog. I would, of course, like to thank muse1453 for getting this thing started, at a time when there were maybe less than a hundred sharity blogs in existence. Now the number of sharity blogs has grown exponentially during the past two years. I also would like to thank everyone who has supported this blog, took the time to leave a comment, and just visited this blog.