ahem!

'Tis the season to be jolly, yesterday's post notwithstanding, or at least faintly smug. Today is the first anniversary of my Very First Post Evah! (thanks, Stv, still with the Evah! infection...). 365 days, 223 posts, 1240 comments, altogether a successful one-year trial of the wittering, frittering and twittering which constitutes the Most Time-Wasting Invention Known To Human Kind. Also, I should celebrate the fact that a year of blogging has not yet caused my Evil Landlord to fling me forthwith into the snow as a result of the Dial-Up Phone Bills From Hell. Why, I'm not quite sure, because they're hellish. I suspect he may be working up to it.

It remains only to note that (a) blogging was clearly invented specifically to pander to my personal tendencies to verbosity, unsolicited cultural analysis and ongoing love affair with the English language, for which I thank it, and (b) it wouldn't work without an interesting array of responses, for which I thank you, gentle readers. Or not so gentle readers. Or downright argumentative readers, sometimes. In a good way...