When I started posting items every day on my website, there wasn't much in the way of software to make that easy. I had to just do it all by hand in HTML, which now feels like trying to wash your laundry by beating it on a rock in a river. Now, I have been known to post from my iPhone while far from my home computer. That doesn't change things much from where you are but it sure feels different from my end.
The current software tells me that once I post this, there will be exactly 22,500 posts on this site. Less than 4,000 of them did not plug Frank Ferrante, infuriate my right-wing friend Roger or urge the abolition of cole slaw.
This would be a good time to thank all of you who've sent kind words and/or submitted interesting links or corrections and/or made donations. I do this mainly for my own sanity — what little I may still have — because it's fun to "sketch" and to do something that's all mine with no collaborator or employer to say, "How about if we change this?" But it's more fun when I'm reminded that there are people out there who actually read the thing and recommend it to others. So thanks for that. I do not accept advertising and I rarely plug what I have out that you can purchase…so your response is my main reward.
Later today, I'll re-post the most popular story I've ever put up here in fifteen years, plus I'll find some other goodies before the day is out. Just my way of showing my appreciation.