Post 900

I’ve been reading through old Argh posts, starting at the beginning when I hadn’t enabled comments, and it’s like reading a diary. Sometimes it’s like reading a diary with shadows on it because I read the posts and then I remember what was happening behind the scenes or what happened next that changed everything I thought when I wrote the post. And every now and then I stumble across an unpublished draft, and those are interesting, too, what I thought at the time and why I didn’t publish. There are 899 posts in the archive, 823 published and 76 in draft form, and this is the nine hundredth one I’ve written (824th published). The big take away is that often the best things I remember about a post aren’t in the post, they’re in the comments. The GHH post, for example, was fun, but it was the comments section that made that one epic, inventive minds that took an absurd concept and ran with it. That happens over and over again: I read an old post and think, But there was more, and then keep reading into the comments because that’s where the juice is. There are 2325 comments, and I am very, very grateful for everyone of them because this blog is much more interesting as a conversation than as a monologue.

Thank you.

Edited to add:

I was wrong about the number of comments. There are 2,235 PAGES of comments. Number of actual comments: 46, 488. Thatsa lotta comments. Really, THANK YOU.