A quick word of appreciation
Jul 5, 2008 100k!, Bloggerating, I really dig my readers, Leg hugs for all, Self-Referential Stuff
As I write this, the ol’ Sitemeter sits at 99,997, meaning that we will roll that thing over the 100K mark at some point in the next hour or two. I’d been telling myself that I was going to write some big post celebrating that milestone, but doing that kind of post so close in time to my big discussion on blogging in general seems redundant. (Besides, I know for a fact that the Sitemeter has crashed at least three times for hours at a time, so we should have rolled over the meter some time last week most likely. Whatever.)
ANYWAY, instead of doing some kind of big, introspective piece, I thought I would take this chance to offer some thanks to random people reasonably related to this blog. If you are not on this list, it either means that I don’t like you or that I simply forgot. Or, I suppose, that I have nothing to thank you for, but I still like you. You figure it out.
Thanks to bfd for being a fantastic co-blogger and a heckuva person in real life. He and I have become close enough (in a hetero way) from doing this gig that I don’t feel at all weird referring to him as “my friend.” He also doesn’t complain when I bombard him with text messages, which is nice.
Thanks to Tim for all sorts of stuff. Jeez…the man has bought muliple rounds of drinks, hooked a brother up with a ticket to the HOU-TEN game last year, let me crash at his house when I made the trip to H-town to pick up the smoker. Totally above and beyond. Also, he doesn’t complain about my million text messages, which seems to be a pre-req for being my friend.
Thanks to Liston for hooking me up with an actual paying gig writing about the Texans. (I’ll have a more detailed mention of this next week.)
Thanks to stacy for being the first reader of this place to ever email me and cheer me on in the early months. I really think it wouldn’t have become as good as it has (I’ll leave the actual “goodness level” determination to each of you) were it not for his early urgings.
Thanks to Whitney Pastorek for giving me the chance to help with the Deadspin preview last year and for just being awesome when I pester her via email.
Thanks to beef, SOLIS, and Shake for routinely cracking me up in the comments. Also, SOLIS gets credit for inspiring me to switch from blogspot to a real host in an effort to keep the Man from censoring me.
Thanks to Eric, without whom the morning Kickoff posts would be WAY more labor-intensive.
Thanks to anyone who has ever emailed me to suggest a story, a picture, or a restaurant, or just to comment on something I said or did.
Thanks to my wife for putting up with her football-obsessed husband blogging away while we watch television. “No, dear, I can’t feed the baby because someone is wrong on the internet!”
Thanks to any of you who I have met in real life for not kicking me in the nuts or setting me up to stumble into a dark alley where Travis Johnson is hiding. That’s really cool of you. Also, any of you who have ever bought me a beer are on the shortlist of people I will give money to should I ever win billions of dollars.
Finally, thanks to everyone other than Douchebag Tom who has ever bothered to comment, even if it was just once. The comments are what keep me doing it, you know. (Extra thanks to Dave for being lame awesome enough to be the MOST prolific commenter. I’m sure he has it on his resume.)
