Sometime on Tuesday, this blog reached the 200,000-view mark.

It’s not one of the larger right-leaning blogs in the blogosphere, but 200,000 in five years and six months isn’t too bad for something started to keep its newly unemployed proprietor (the British word for “publisher”) in the daily writing habit, or fix.

So on this new number on the blogodometer I’d like to thank all my readers, be they email subscribers or readers through Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or LinkedIn. From Blogspot to WordPress to StevePrestegard.com you have read, with I’m sure varying degrees of subject interest, everything from cars to music to marching band to sports to my interview of myself. (Click for the top blog posts of 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.) Writers will write whether or not they have readers, but writers prefer to have readers.