Next Stop, 10,000!

So this happened: Yesterday, I put up my 9,000th post in The Rap Sheet! Nine thousand! I knew this milestone was in the offing, and had been trying to keep a fairly close track, to ensure that I didn’t accidentally zip past 9,000 without proper fanfare.

I had no idea, when I launched this blog in May 2006, that I’d still be working on it 18 years later. Or that I would see it now approaching 10 million pageviews. Or that I could publish 9,000 posts here (not every one of them written by me, of course). It all rather astounds me. But I’m still having fun—and that’s the most important part.

Thank you, dear readers, for taking this long journey with me!