This is my 500th post on this blog. A five hundredth anniversary is called a “quincentennial.” Easy to remember because you can think of the exotic fruit quince.
It’s now been 333 days since I started blogging on June 13, 2005. That’s an average of 1.5 posts a day. Site usage information tells me that there is a loose corps of about 100 readers who check in periodically; I don’t know who most of you are. And that’s cool.
Speaking of anniversaries, The Wife and I will be spending ours next week driving from Wisconsin to Tennessee after visiting our families there. Any ideas on what I should get her, aside from a full tank of unleaded? (Gasoline: the gift that says, “Yes, honey, we are still in Indiana.”) Seriously, though, I should get her something other than finally agreeing to return to California. She’s been singularly responsible for getting me through our time out here and I’m very grateful to her.
Nothing says I love you like really expensive candy imported via the Internet.Or a trip to Acapulco, since she is trying to learn Spanish.