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Milestones

I’ve had a pretty good day.

My Fantasy Baseball team, which had been mired near the bottom of the pack most of the year, is now up to 2nd place! I’ll post a more detailed update later. Of course, I think the team has been overachieving the past few weeks, so I fully expect to settle back around 3rd-4th place soon. But it’s nice to be up here (of course, at least one day in first would be nice—my team had a pretty decent day, so who knows? Update 5/21/04: Well, I dropped to 3rd yesterday, but then today, the Cute Smiley Fishies are indeed in first place. w00t!).

I also checked my stats and was quite pleasantly surprised that my site visits hit an all-time high, almost triple my daily average for the past few weeks and more than twice my previous high. It turns out it was mostly due to referrals from MacSurfer to my post about the G-Force visualization plugin for iTunes. So I know it’ll just be a one-day spike, but I’ll take what I can get.

But I’ve also hit a couple of milestones that won’t be reversed (short of Calvin and Hobbes hopping through their time machine to prevent this blog from ever being created).

First off, I’ve hit my six-month blogiversary a couple of weeks ago (and yes, I’ve duly updated my Blogger Code on my About Page). I wasn’t sure I’d still be at it this long, or if I’d have run out of material by now. Turns out, that should have been the least of my worries (my “to-blog” queue of topics is frighteningly long, actually). Burnout was a bit of an issue (and Tyler Cowen recently discussed that subject), but occasionally cutting back to posting once or twice a week is probably how I’ll handle it.

And, by sheer coincidence, this marks my 100th blog post! I initially thought I had it a couple of weeks ago, but that was counting the unpublished draft posts. This one’s the real deal. And so, if you post a comment on it, you will get a free prize… (drum roll…) a cookie! The browser kind, and only if you select “Yes” for “Remember personal info?” But a cookie nonetheless (oh, stop complaining—what’ve you ever given me?).

I know that there are plenty of bloggers who run through 100 posts like a hot knife through chocolate and peanut-butter ice cream (mmmm! yummy ice cream!). But regular readers know why that many posts by me is a pretty big deal, especially when I explained it. Not to mention I still have a full-time job at a tech startup. And unlike a certain someone, I do also spend a large amount of time cutting and editing (cuz otherwise, my posts would sound a lot more stupider than they already do).

Of course, these tremendously wonderful and unbelievably awesome accomplishments will sadly be overshadowed by some dude named Johnson throwing a ball. Life just ain’t fair.

Oh well. That’s why there’s ice cream!