82K+

So apparently it took me six days to add a counter to my blog when it first started two years ago.

Yes, I started counting on June 12, 2003 and as of today, June 12, 2005, my lil ol' blog has logged 82,312 as of right now (14:19).

That number, insofar as its magnitude, is something graspable only in terms of, say, annual-salary-in-1999-dollars or even very-nice-sportscar-in-2005-dollars, but nothing else that I can think of. It's too high for any-car-I-might-buy-in-any-year-dollars and too low for any-home-in-San-Francisco-dollars. Too low by six-fold the number of days I've been alive so far. Too high, following logically, for the number of days I might expect to live.

Too low for the number of years planet earth has been around. Too high the number of same years for the Fundies (they estimate we've been around about 6,000-8,000 years).

The average number of visitors per day works out to about 112, ranging from the early days (10-30 per day) to these days (130-180 per day). Maybe I'll live to 112. $112 gets me a 1GB iPod shuffle with my discount. 112 days is a summertime. 112 miles is a round trip to San Jose. 112 is 100 more than the number of years I've lived in this beautiful place. 112 minutes (times 2) is time of my life watching the latest Star Wars movie that I'll never get back.

I don't want the time back that I've spent on writing this blog, however. I also don't want the time back I spent writing that novel. Or being with Sam. Or having been with Allen. Or time spent living in San Francisco.

Maybe I should have been a numerologist. Naaah, not enough time for that.