Last week marked a couple of milestones for me. <\/p>\n
First, and probably most shockingly, I finally turned 40. It wasn’t as stressful a birthday as my 39th was for a number of very personal reasons, and I would have been content to let the day pass without much comment. But 80+ Facebook greetings, some nice emails, IM and IRC messages…people will say things and then there is no escaping the fact.<\/p>\n
Second, Flash of Steel passed one million lifetime visits. Now Rock, Paper, Shotgun probably does that in a month. It took me much longer, and though I am addicted to checking my stats, I don’t put a whole lot of stake in them except as trends. I know that if I wrote more often, I would have passed this threshhold months ago.<\/p>\n
So, on the birthday front, special thanks to all friends and family that have gotten me this far. Special thanks to that handful of die-hards (you know who you are) that helped me through a few difficult transitions – there are more to come.<\/p>\n
On the site front, thanks to everyone that comes back regularly to read even when I update slowly and everyone that comments intelligently and politely on my posts. It means a great deal to me to have an audience that respects what I have tried to do here and that hasn’t harangued me to write more than I have the last 18 months.<\/p>\n
I probably won’t be writing in this space in 40 years time, but I will try to hit 1 million visits sooner – and that will mean more updates. I have a lot of stuff backlogged, some of it in reply to what smarter people are writing for money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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