Once I post this item, we will be nine posts from having 25,000 posts on this blog. Admittedly, there have been some reruns — by my count, 136. But I've also deleted at least that many posts in the 6,208 days since I started this blog…and so what? 25,000 posts on a one-person blog has to count for something. Since I average about four a day, we'll probably see Post #25,000 this weekend. It will be, as promised, a pretty long one in response to what I thought was the best "ASK me" question submitted since I solicited questions for the occasion.