What has blogging done for me?

The next question for me to entertain...

What has blogging done for me through all these years?

As an attempt to figure this out, I reposted the first two posts of mine dated back to January 2005.

My very first post:
At the very beginning, there was Ratopia. Then, there's ratology.

The second post:
The day after I upped my dosage in Zoloft

As a result of this new and smaller scale question, today I took started a new Nvivo project including only postings I have labeled as "Why I blog"... trying to find in my own words supporting evidence for my own theories...

What methodology!? 8-O lol 8-X