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"And We Have Walked Ten Thousand Miles... er... Posts"

And so, here we are, at the official #10,000 on the blog post meter, reached in barely more than three years (and probably reached back in December, based on how many posts Blogger can eat on a hungry day).

Let me suggest to each of you a plan:

Practice random acts:

• of leadership
• of questioning authority
• of speaking up and out and over the top of those who would silence you
• of refusing to believe when someone tells you that you cannot do something
• of holding your elected representatives responsible for their votes that are not just against your best interests but the best interests of the globe
• of holding yourself accountable
• of demanding more and NOT accepting less
• of patriotism since American patriotism was NEVER (before Bush arrived) about sitting back, shutting up, and taking it like a peon

And, should you decide you happen to like the results you get (and trust me, I say from experience that you won't always), then practice one or more or ALL of these acts without randomness.

These were the tenets I made myself agree to when I decided to start this blog right after Christmas 2003, recovering from a serious illness that really should have killed me, and when I decided that, since I remained alive, I had to stop being such a scaredy cat.

Yes, I have suffered for my outspokenness. But - as much as I sometimes wish I could turn back the clock and NOT take this path - this is what I feel I must do for myself, my family, my community, my country, and my world. And, somehow, here I still am. Bruised but not exactly broken.

Good luck, my friends. It's worth it.

Closing In On 10,000 Posts

Egads!

Dashboard reports I'm just 12 posts - er... make that 11 now - from hitting the 10,000th post mark on this lowly blog.

Someone needs to tell me to shut up. [Note: won't work. Ask my 5th grade teacher.]

HaloScan Comments: A/K/A If At First (Or At Least, The First 59 Times), You Don't Succeed

Regular comments are back; this preserves all the comments left before they "disappeared" last Saturday.

A Comment About Comments

For some reason, HaloScan comments - despite hours of effort - remain disabled.

Unhappily, I am temporarily enabling default Blogger comments while I keep working on HaloScan.

Surviving The Migration Mambo

Dear lord, I think we migrated to the new Blogger platform without anything exploding, excreting, eviscerating, or extruding.

This is good actually, not just because I don't need a mess, but because we've got about a foot of new snow in less than 12 hours and we're due for between one and two MORE feet before this storm wraps up tomorrow morning. It's only 2 degrees, however, which makes shoveling such a... a... a.... fuckingly awful experience.

Frankly, I'm amazed we still have power (the satellite disappeared hours ago) but that may go soon.