Glad THAT'S over...

Monday morning staff meetings are not the mostest fun things in the world--although they are the most benign of the meetings I have to attend. Summer is worse because there are no football games to discuss. I have often thought the meetings would be much better attended and everyone would stay awake if we had ring card girls to announce the next agenda items. Just a thought.

ANYWAY, first things first--many hundreds of thanks to Meryl Yourish for her kindness in actually wading through all my rambling for the week past and posting a whole series of links (which actually worked, by the way, thanks to that great new Blogger software--"Blogger: It Doesn't Suck Near As Bad Now!") to various stuff she thought worthwhile.

The resulting Merylanche pushed the old number counter over the 100,000 mark! Now, you must realize that the vast majority of these hits are either the result of me pushing the reload button hoping in vain that the content will get better, or alternately, having to perform multiple edits to correct various mental-ineptitude-based errors. But still, that is some sort of a milestone, no matter what.

I thank everyone who has stopped in over the past 18 months, including the one illiterate troll. Why, if I had a penny for every hit, I would now have well over ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS!! Amazing.

In this past few months, I have typed an enormous amount of stuff. I have no idea how much in total, but I just now took a random week (October 20-25, 2002) and copied it into Word to get an estimate of the size of the content. Taking out all the bits of articles copied from other sources and date stamps and junk, I figured it came to around 8,100 words, which is probably a pretty accurate average. 8,100 words multiplied times 77 weeks comes up to 623,700 words. All of it FREE to you (well almost all of you, because Marc Velazquez was nice enough to buy the banner ad off the top).

That's a heap, no matter which way you slice it, and portions of it have actually been worth what it cost you!

And why do I do it?

Just to prove a point.

(And when I do get around to proving one, buddy-o, you guys'll be the FIRST ONES TO KNOW!)

So, thanks again!

(I just did another quick calculation and I figure if I had gotten a penny for each word, why, it would have over SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS! Woo-hoo! You know, that's almost enough to invest in this deal a guy from Nigeria wants me to help with...)
posted by Terry at 10:02:00 AM