It was just about a year ago, Sargeant Pepper tought the band to blow…
No, that’s not it. Let’s try again:
It was about a year ago that I started my Blog. May of 2004. (Yeah, I didn’t have a blogiversary party, but I’m a guy and we kinda forget about stuff like that if we don’t have a better half to remind us. Anyway)
About a year ago, I had just started my blog, and became extremely fortunate a few weeks later to happen across Mindy’s blog when she was about to hit 50,000 visitors. In fact, I was the 50,000th visitor, and I got a t-shirt. I still wear it proudly to this day. Yes, I do take it off and wash it every now and then.
Lo and behold, I looked and my blog is approaching the magical 50,000 visitor mark. Woot! I never thought I’d live this long, let alone still be blogging. So, to celebrate, I’m gonna have a contest of my own.
First, I’m leaving in the morning on vacation. Going to a beach far away that may or may not have internet access (I kinda doubt it, but you never know these days). So I won’t have a clue when I hit the magic 50K.
A minute ago it was at 49,505. I’m talking about the Statcounter in the right column, below my blogroll and above the weather pixie (not the other counter way down at the bottom of the page, the statcounter is the only one I’ve had the entire time).
So here it is: if you are the 50,000th visitor, get a screen shot (um, I think it’s Ctrl+Print Screen on windoze) and email it to me (address in sidebar, oldsillybear (at) gmail dot com) and I’ll confirm it when I get back late next week. And I’ll send you a CD mix of some music that I can almost be sure you don’t have in your collection but that you should like anyway. If not? I’ll give you your money back. I know more than one person might get the shot (counters are pretty strange creatures) but that’s ok, I’ve got plenty of CD’s. If 100 people get it, though, that may be a bit much 🙂
Fair enough?
Great. Thanks, y’all. I can’t believe you keep coming here (although at least half of my hits are people looking for Emma Watson’s Breasts, which I don’t really have, so at least half of my visitors leave very disappointed. Oh well, can’t please everyone)