I NEVER CONTEMPLATED THE FUTURE WHEN I BELATEDLY ENTERED BLOGDOM TWO YEARS BACK . . . . THERE'S BEEN SOME WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE SINCE THEN . . . . JUST TOOK A GLANCE AT THE VIEWOMETER GAUGE AND THERE IT IS, TELLING ME THAT 100,174 BODS HAVE HAD A PERVE AT MY LITTLE BLOG . . . . I'M STILL PRETTY MUCH IN A STATE OF SHOCK.

I HAD NO IDEA WHERE THIS CAPER WAS GOING TO GO, HOW LONG IT WOULD LAST AND WHETHER ANYONE WOULD GIVE A FLYING FART, TWO YEARS IS A DROP IN THE INTERWEB OCEAN IN COMPARISON TO MANY OF THOSE WHOSE TRIP I'VE BEEN ADMIRING AND CHECKING IN ON, FOR YEARS IN SOME CASES, BEFORE I OVERCAME MY FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN, SIGNED UP, SOULED OUT AND JUMPED ON THE BANDWAGON LIKE A HIPSTER LEMMING . . . . SIMILARLY, I GUESS 100,000 PAGEVIEWS IS EQUALLY INSIGNIFICANT BY COMPARISON, I REALLY DON'T HAVE A CLUE, BECAUSE IT HAS NEVER BEEN ABOUT NUMBERS OR THE 'HEY, MINE'S BIGGER THAN YOURS'  BULLSHIT, THIS WHOLE SHEBANG HAS ONLY EVER BEEN ABOUT SHARING MY THOUGHTS AND MY OFTEN TIMES EGOTISTICAL OPINIONS AS HONESTLY AND AS OPENLY AS POSSIBLE WITH ANYONE WHO CARES TO TAKE NOTICE. NOTHING MORE AND NOTHING LESS . . . . AND THAT IS HOW THINGS WILL REMAIN, I'M ME, NOT SOMEONE ELSE, SO I'LL SIMPLY CONTINUE ON DOING WHAT I DO AND HOPE THAT WHOEVER CHOOSES TO HAVE A LOOK WILL TAKE SOME SMALL INSIGHT OR FEELING FROM IT THAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE WHEN THEY ARRIVED.

A HEARTFELT AND SINCERE WORD TO THE 'CREW' I HAVE LABELLED AS THE DISCERNING PSYCHOTICS GUILD IN MY SIDEBAR . . . . FROM THE MOST RECENT TO THE LONGEST STANDING, I APPRECIATE MORE THAN WANKING ON HERE COULD EVER REALLY REVEAL, YOUR STUMBLING ALONG WITH ME, YOUR TOLERATING MY IDIOT BOY RANTS, MY OUTTA WACK PREACHING AND MY FREQUENT DRIBBLING ON AND FUCKING ON . . . . SIMPLY PUT, I'M STOKED. YOU HAVE BECOME FRIENDS AND A FEW HAVE GONE BEYOND THAT AND HAVE FOUND A VERY SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART, AND ONE BLOKE HAS WORMED HIS WAY INTO MY WORLD LIKE A BROTHER FROM A DIFFERENT MOTHER. YOU ALL HAVE MY DEEPEST GRATITUDE AND RESPECT.