thanks to all seven-hundred and twenty one of you

I finally installed a decent statistics package on this site, and discovered that there are a lot more of you reading this than I thought. I had only been seeing the counter on the front page, whereas it seems that many of you are cleverly coming directly to the blog, perhaps via this new-fangled "bookmark" technology the kids keep telling me about.

I would really like to be a professional blogger and sit here all day and entertain you. It's like comedy, except with occasional cat photos, and also, no one flashes a red light at me after seven minutes. But pro-blogging ain't going to happen with Google ads. I'm fomenting a plan as we speak. Or, as I blog, since we're not actually speaking. Although I wish we were, dear readers. Wait, but then I wouldn't be blogging, which would be a step further from my goal of blogging professionally. Well, maybe you could sit on the couch watching Jeopardy and shouting out the answers before Alex Trebec says them, and I'll sit here, blogging away, occasionally throwing a glance in your direction, and thinking how sweet it is that you think Jane Austin wrote "Moll Flanders."