This comment by JR was comment #800.

No prizes, just sayin'.

I might have to think up something special for #1,000.

Someone using a City of San Antonio computer seemingly studied my "about me" post for about 10 minutes this afternoon, after first spending a further 10 minutes reading the front page of the blog.  On a Sunday, no less.  Well, I'm sure S.A. taxpayers have no problem with you spending your overtime this way.

I woke up this morning feeling like I inhaled sand all night.  Probably got the same thing that my kids have had in the past week or so.  I kept feeling like I should post something today but couldn't come up with anything, although I got all caught up on blog reading.  Most of today was spent taking sinus/sore throat drugs and sleeping.

I did spend a while just poking around looking for some images that I might find useful, and stumbled across this guy:


I think he's supposed to be a character from some computer game.  It took me a while to clean up the background and make it transparent so I could stick it wherever I wanted.  I think I'll change the smoke, too.

After this week, I've felt like taking a break.  Although I suppose that right now is not really a good time for anyone with even the tiniest voice to voluntarily go silent.

I just figured out that if you had at some point in the past changed your url over at Blogspot, the old blog at the old url still remains.

And then, if you go into your dashboard and "create" a blog with that old name, it remembers that it already belongs to you and reactivates a "new" blog under the old url.

Why did I even think to try this?  Because this week I've been wondering if someday I might have to just chuck it all here and go undercover, and begin blogging anonymously.

It was kind of an accidental discovery, actually.  I was looking for different available Blogspot urls and when I tried one, the site that came up looked oddly familiar.  It was the url of my original blog four years ago, when I was the only person who knew about it.  I didn't even remember having used that name.  I must not have kept it very long.  Back then, since I knew no one was reading it anyway, I kept trying different names and urls, trying to come up with something "cool."

Thanks, Michele!

Now I know I'm supposed to choose five more blogs for this thing, but just about every other blog I read has already done this.  So if you're on my "regular reads" consider yourself so honored.

My old post on the P-22 has been the highest traffic getter since it was posted.

Now, my mention the VT incident, coupled with that post on the P-22, is sending traffic through the roof.  Just when I thought I wouldn't crash the bandwidth barrier this month.

I got hit with one of those bugs last night that makes it unsafe for me to get more than 30 feet from a bathroom.  So I'm home today, and if I can, I'm going to be rearranging some things here.  So if something looks wrong, it's just because I'm trying some stuff out.  If I screw something up, I'll put it back the way it was.

UPDATE:  Okay, looks good for now.  I put all the blogrolls in collapsible windows to tidy things up a little.  Only one bathroom dash in the last hour, so I think things are improving.  Thanks to Michele at Reformed Chicks Blabbing for cluing me in to the flooble script.

The new blogheader has skewed the display in IE, and once again, I don't know why because it's the exact same size as the original "strip" header.  Display is just fine with Firefox or Opera.

I've been working on a new "toon strip" blogheader and tonight finally patched one together.  Not that anyone cares, but it's something I enjoy.  Characters from left to right.

Hellboy.
Byron Orpheus, The Venture Brothers.
Ichigo Kurosaki, Bleach.
A little pipe-smoking alien in a spaceship from the BOBCO7 font that I jazzed up with Gimp.
Riza Hawkeye, Fullmetal Alchemist.
Alucard, Hellsing.
A Deep One from the cover of an old Scholastic Book Club collection of Lovecraft stories.
Abel Nightroad, Trinity Blood.
Invader Zim.

Nothing significant, just another collection of pictures conveying emotions, states of mind, and hobbies.

I still have a couple of other "strip" blogheaders in the works, one using various images from vintage ads and another with an Old West theme.

The one of Hawkeye is, I think, the best picture I've seen of her so far.  Here's a bigger version:


I don't know what's up with the trigger guard, but note the trigger finger.