One-Month Anniversary

Hey, it's been one whole month since I began TBKF or The Daily Ex or whatever the cool kids around the water cooler are calling it.

Too soon for nicknames? Probably so. Withdrawn, your Honor.

Yeah, the blog went over 1000 page views a little while ago, too. Thanks to everyone who made it happen. I plan on sending you both Christmas cards this year.

A lot has happened in one month. And I don't mean "a lot" in the sense that "a lot of meaningless thoughts have managed to tunnel under the barbed wire in my brain to arrive on the other side, blinking in the moonlight, forged documents in hand, hoping against hope they don't hear the sound of the camp alarm or vicious German shepherds in hot pursuit." (Sorry for the extended metaphor - I watched The Great Escape recently.) I mean "a lot a lot." Roomies Matt & Judi bought a home. I moved back to my parents' house for a few months while I wait to hear about the Fulbright teacher exchange. My brother-in-law John's Fulbright for Ireland came through! And in the past two days I went for two bike rides, meaning, in effect, that my back is basically healthy again. I credit the healing power of the blog. No, seriously: embedded within its very html structure is the sacred code of St. Adalbert. Couldn't secure the rights to any relics of the flashier saints. If you want Clare or Joseph of Arimathea, you've gotta pay top dollar. They're owned by Microsoft. But Adalbert's still a good one. Throw away those reading glasses! You won't need them here, friend!

I'm off to run errands. The four-dimensional world beckons. If nothing else, in one month's time, we have learned this about the blog: if it was ever going to turn into a werewolf, it would have done so by now.