Monday, April 30, 2007

I will not celebrate meaningless milestones

I will not celebrate meaningless milestones
I will not celebrate meaningless milestones
I will not celebrate meaningless milestones
I will not celebrate meaningless mi

OK, so for whatever it's worth - and that's probably not much - I would like to announce or point out or draw your attention to the fact that this is post #500. Big deal, you say. So do I. Of course, if I had posted with any kind of regularity, I would have reached this meaningless milestone ages ago, maybe years ago. Instead, I am reaching this magic number 4 years in.

I am not suggesting that there are 500 good posts here, simply that there are 500 posts. Sure, some suck and should never have been published. There are far too many posts that are simply apologies for not posting. There are those insidious posts that manage only to say that I have nothing to say. There are a few posts that announce I am ill. And, worst of all, the posts that repeat the message that I am ill and add absolutely nothing of substance. I should have subtracted them, and kept a real tally of real posts, but the mathematics of this proved too much for me, and so I am simply relying on the Blogger stats, which may be wrong.

There are 30 posts I consider to be my favourites. There are dozens that should be recycled, and a few phrases I would like to put on a t-shirts and sell at overly-inflated prices.

To celebrate this meaningless milestone, there will be gluten-free cake and decaf coffee at 2:00 pm.

Thanks for the get well soon comments. They worked and I am, at last, well, but not well enough to write a real post.

Comment moderation remains on: to see why, read these posts: one, two, three, four.

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8 comments:

Anna May Won't said...

"gluten-free cake and decaf coffee" - woohoo, partay at zydeco's house!

congrats on #500.

Kate said...

I like cake in any form and decaf coffee is what society at large needs me to be drinking, so I think it sounds like fun.

For what it's worth, I don't mind the I'm sick posts. Keeps us up to date. Speaking of, hope you're feeling better.

Anonymous said...

I'm all about the cake, but decaf? Really?

Glad you are on the mend.

zydeco fish said...

I'm all about decaf. It's so uncool!

Super Happy Jen said...

Congrats on the big 500. I myself am currently celebrating my 332nd post.

tweetey30 said...

I havent counted but I have only been doing this since November. Not even a year yet here. LOL... Really ZF its ok to let us know how you are feeling and why you arent doing posts. Its nice to know how your friends are doing. Hope you stay feeling better.

Anonymous said...

Happy 500! Can't wait til you reach 1000.

tshsmom said...

I read a couple of bloggers who actually write 500 meaningful posts a year. Where do they find the time, and the subject matter?
I wish I could be that prolific, but I've got too many chores muddling up my day. ;)